David Selby Quotes
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
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Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
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I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the 'Housewives.' I am a huge fan of 'New Jersey.'
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.
