David Selby Quotes
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.
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The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity.
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There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.
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I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
