David Sylvian Quotes
Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I always played to win.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
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I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
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Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
