David Small Quotes
I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.
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I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.
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I started with the modeling.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.
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I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.
