David Bellos Quotes
In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
Quotes to Explore
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
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I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
