David Alan Harvey Quotes
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.
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All I need to worry about is have I done better than my previous film or not.
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Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
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I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
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Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.
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The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
