David Slade Quotes
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.
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Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.
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Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.
