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David Newman Quotes

The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 11, 1954

Topics

Relationship Hero Kind Spirit Real

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Myself Hero Writing Action Doing

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Football Small Better Boy Than Died

I don't really think in terms of goals.

Goals Think Really Terms

What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.

Think Recognition Country Australia

I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.

Daughter Practice Me Painting Color

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

Sometimes President Never Outside

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Art More Craftsman Film Idea

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry Action Call Also

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Future People Security Want Workers

I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

People Me Youth Theatre Black Big

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

People Better Feel Uncomfortable

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

Ocean I Am Natural Well Interested

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