David Severn (David Storr Unwin) Quotes
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I'm a bed monster.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
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If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
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When things look dark, void, and altogether hopeless to the colored youth of America..., when they need an inspiring thought that should urge them onward to the road of achievement despite forbidding obstacles, they will only need to read of and reflect upon the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson.
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In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.
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But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.
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Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I have a platform to be able to do something to help other people beat cancer.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
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I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.
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If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.
