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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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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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 didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
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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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I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.
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For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Bad ideas make the best memories.
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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.
