David Yates Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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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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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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People want you to fail.
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The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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The rottenness comes from within.
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When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.
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Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
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If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.
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Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
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Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
