Dave Attell Quotes
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
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I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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Poets work upon and through each other.
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
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I have no grand scheme.
