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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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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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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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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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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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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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.
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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.
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When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.
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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
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When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
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I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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The world is evolving.
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Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
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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?
