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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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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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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You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.
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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
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Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.
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Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.
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I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.
