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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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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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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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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You never want to see a guy struggle. And we've all struggled. It's part of the game.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.
