David Pye Quotes
The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
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The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
