Brother Dave Gardner (David Gardner) Quotes
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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America is huge.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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If it doesn't have that element to it, it doesn't really attract me.
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I want to try everything.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
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Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.
