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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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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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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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.
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My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.
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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
