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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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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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'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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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
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I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
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Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
