David Nutter Quotes
As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. I'm a people watcher.
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by, For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
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It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.
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As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.
