David Pleat Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
