David Newman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
-
There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
-
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
-
India should be an exporter of technology.
-
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
-
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
-
My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
-
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
-
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
-
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
-
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
-
As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
-
The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
-
The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
-
People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.
-
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
-
'You are dictatorial.' My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
-
In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap - as measured by the pay - that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.
-
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
-
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
-
I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
-
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
-
If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.
-
I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.
