David Slade Quotes
Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
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A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.
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Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.
