David Thewlis Quotes
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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I have faith in my imperfections!
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
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The margin between success and drama is fractional.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.
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I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
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The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
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I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.
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Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.
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I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
