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.
Wallace Shawn -
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.
Hailey Gates -
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. King -
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.
Orson Welles -
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman -
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.
Laura Dern
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
Edgardo Osorio -
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
Gale Norton -
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Samuel Butler -
I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
Katee Sackhoff -
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.
Wally Lamb
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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.
Rachel McAdams -
I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.
Hailey Bieber -
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan Quayle -
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Barry Commoner -
Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plant?Anyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant.But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.
Sammy Cahn
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Those who know when to halt are unharmed.
Lao Tzu -
Music is what I do naturally.
Tyler Hilton -
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
Annette Funicello -
Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
Stanley Robert Vinton -
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
Emily Murphy -
During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.
David Sylvian