David Cobley Quotes
Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.
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I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
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I love '80s horror.
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One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!
