David Sze Quotes
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.
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I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
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The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
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It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
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There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
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On its face, Donald Trump's hateful musings about women and his boastful claims of sexual dominance should be reason alone to drive him from polite society and certainly to blockade him from the West Wing. Yet somehow, his misogyny has instead propelled his campaign to the brink of the Republican nomination.
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All one great big lie.
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The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
