David Slade Quotes
As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
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On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
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As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
