Dave Smalley Quotes
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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I don't exercise.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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I've never lost track of what I stand for and what I believe in. I'm proud of that.
