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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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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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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[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.
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Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.
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I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense job.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
