David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
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There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.
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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
