David Ervine Quotes
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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We lost our way, our society lost our way.
