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 would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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'Look after him, Lieutenant. An army isn't made of it's officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.'
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You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
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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.
