David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
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The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
