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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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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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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I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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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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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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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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On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.
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You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
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Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.
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It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
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My dad died when I was a kid, so I think it became a place for me to go where my mom knew that I was safe and taken care of and looked after.
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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.
