David Means Quotes
My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.
Quotes to Explore
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I respect the Premier League.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
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My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.
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You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
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His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
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Trusting in God is important. He knows what is best.
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.
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The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
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My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.
