Dave Farrell Quotes
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I just love math and most people don't.
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Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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We experienced the high Friday night and the low Saturday night.
