David Morrissey Quotes
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Maybe I am just a jerk.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
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Why is football important? Good question. Like Will Rogers said, all of us can't be heroes, somebody's gotta sit on the curb and clap when they ride by. I think that's what it is. People want to pull for something, whether it's America and you want to fly your flag ... why are NASCAR fans so adamant? Why do they pull for Jeff Gordon or Little E? People want to have something to pull for. You become part of a brotherhood. If you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, you seek out other Dallas Cowboy fans.
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We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
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I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
