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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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
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If you are good, they say you are weak.
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The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
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My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.
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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.
