Dave Gahan Quotes
I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.
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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
