Dave Attell Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.
