David Means Quotes
I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
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I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?
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Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
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I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
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I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.
