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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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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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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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
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America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.
