David Means Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
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I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
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All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to show other colors.
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I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.
