David Thewlis Quotes
I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
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As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism.
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I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.
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I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'
