David Pleat Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I don't know what love means.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.
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As a young girl, there are pressures that come with any career, but I decided when I got into this I didn't want to be perfect.
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I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.
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He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.
