David Thewlis Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
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Smiling makes a huge difference. A lot of people walk the red carpet and try to be sexy. I don't do that; I always smile.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.
