Jeremy Davies Quotes
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
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If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
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Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
