David Longstreth Quotes
Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.
Quotes to Explore
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
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Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.
