David Thewlis Quotes
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I am not honest.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
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Behold, illumin'd by th' instructive age, That great phenomenon, a Sceptred Sage. There Stanislaus unfolds his prudent plan, Tears the strong bandage from the eyes of man, Points the progressive march, and shapes the way, That leads a realm from darkness into day.
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Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.
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Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.
