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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Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
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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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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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I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
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My English is good because I have a good ear.
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Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.
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When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.
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In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
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You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.
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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
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I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
