David Selby Quotes
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.
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I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.
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There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
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The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
