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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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.
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The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
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I am concerned that Millennials are stressed out. They have a higher suicide rate than other generations at their same age. They have the highest diagnosis of depression at their age than other generations. I think we have raised a generation that does not know how to be sad. They are programmed for success and the threat of failure is devastating.
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If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.
