David O. Selznick Quotes
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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I can clap with one hand.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!
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My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
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I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.
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If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
