David Edelstein Quotes

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

David Edelstein

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

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• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

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• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  

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• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  

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• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

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• Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.

  

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• My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

  

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• As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

  

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• Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

  

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• I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

  

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• Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

  

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• Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

  

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• If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.

  

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• My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

  

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• I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

  

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• Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  

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• I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

  

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• The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

  

  David Edelstein
  • Comedy
  • Combination
  • Manners