David Twohy Quotes
I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.
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Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
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We want everybody to be bossed up.
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
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In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
