David Trumble Quotes
We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
Quotes to Explore
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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...I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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To all the unheard wisdom in the school yard: you think you're the right ones; you swear you're the charmed ones I'm sure. But how can you go on with such conviction? Who do you think you are when you question me?
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We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
