David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor’s instincts, since after all, it’s the actors playing the character.
I was David Bowie-thin up to about 28, and then I discovered food.
I wasn’t ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.
I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C’mon – Van Halen doing ‘Dancing in the Streets’? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else’s music.
Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they’re not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the ’70s.
My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.
When I was growing up in the ’80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.
My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities – with a degree in Classics! – and he sounds like a David Mamet character when I hear him on a business call.
General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.
I began my thesis research at Harvard by working with a team in the laboratory of William N. Lipscomb, a Nobel chemistry Laureate, in 1976, on the structure of carboxypeptidase A. I did postdoctoral studies with David Blow at the MRC lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge studying chymotrypsin.
I was a huge ‘Deadwood’ fan because I’m a huge David Milch fan, so I’ve always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on ‘Deadwood’ and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.
David Moyes works you really hard, but he’s also a fair manager as well.
I’m a huge David Hockney fan.
When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice conversationalist. He seemed like a regular guy on the phone when the subject wasn’t on race and on Jews and ethnicity.
Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where ‘presidential’ and ‘actually funny’ overlap.
I’ve always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in ‘Late Night’ – it always seemed so fresh.
David Ben-Gurion established the Israeli intelligence community in June of 1948, just three weeks after the establishment of Israel and in the midst of war.
David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I’m really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.
I’ve known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.
When David Cross and I made ‘Todd Margaret,’ we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome.
In memory of Muhammad Ali I will be knocking out David Haye in one round.
David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.
The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn’t know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it’s The Hoff.
David Attenborough… has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he’s always so fascinated by what he’s seeing. There’s nothing about him that I can’t find attractive.
I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you’re not quite sure. It’s the same in – I’m trying to think of other directors with a similar sense – David Lynch’s films, Tim’s films, some of Cronenberg’s stuff.
That was part of David Duke’s agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something that is respectable and acceptable.
I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.
David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.
Everybody said, ‘You hit it so big when you were on ‘Ally McBeal.’ ‘ I didn’t do anything for a year after ‘Ally McBeal,’ and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on ‘Ally’ a second time because I thought the character should be on again.
Ryan Giggs and David Beckham were the two players I’ve always looked up to.
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one’s book isn’t especially compelling – unless you’re David Sedaris.
I’d be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are two of my favorite writers; they’re the kind of writers who make you feel like, ‘I can do this. I want to do this.’
My love for Arsenal dates back to when I went to watch them play with the then-largest shareholder David Dein. I developed a likeness for the team, and I have been a supporter of the team since then.
I go quite often to David Luiz’s house, and Willian usually joins us, as they are close friends. We have a barbecue, play video games, and we cannot live without samba.
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David’s time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
I love David Caruso. I know it’s not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he’s interesting.
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I’m behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter’s ‘Vanity Fair’, Adam Moss’ ‘New York magazine’ and David Remnick’s ‘New Yorker.’
I’ve worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and singers like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, ‘Well you’re a writer – do you want a special pen compartment or something?’ Bespoke: That’s the term you want to get out there.
David Wain’s character on ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.
David Dhawan is the best as far as Indian comedy films are concerned.
Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
I had one of those light bulb ‘a ha’ moments while screening ‘Good Will Hunting’ in Camp David in 1998 – Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.
I’m a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, ‘Zodiac’ is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time.
I didn’t want to be the typical teen idol. I didn’t want to be Leif Garrett. I didn’t want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers – books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and a few others – and I write crime thrillers.
