David Sylvian Quotes
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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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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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.
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I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
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During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.
