David Storey Quotes
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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It was junk. The motor was broken out of place, the front end was smashed. It was only a couple of hours before the race, so I thought we were done.
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My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.
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I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.
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We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.
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I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.
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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
