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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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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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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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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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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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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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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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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Public unions are big money.
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I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.
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Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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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.
