David Thewlis Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I overdramatize.
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Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
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Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
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If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.
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One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.
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I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.
