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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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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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 really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.
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I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.
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It's important that you love and respect your body, understand what it needs, and accordingly give everything in appropriate proportion.
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There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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When you have a relationship with a label, it can really affect the work you're doing and if you feel like they don't believe in you sometimes you go: "maybe I'm not any good at this". Then you get on a label that is excited to have you and you go: "oh, maybe we are ok at this". It gives you a little more confidence and you work a little better.
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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.
