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 don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.
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Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
