D. B. Sweeney Quotes
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I have learned to be patient.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
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Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
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I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
