Brother Dave Gardner (David Gardner) Quotes
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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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 wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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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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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.
