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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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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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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The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.
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Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
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People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is.
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I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
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If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.
