David Tudor Quotes
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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I always try to remind myself, when it's tough, when your body's sore and you're hurting, I try to sit back and tell myself, 'Would you rather be doing anything else in the world at this moment?'
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A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
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Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
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High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
