Dave Pelzer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
-
I am not in politics to make more money.
-
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
-
I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
-
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
-
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
-
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
-
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
-
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
-
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
-
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
-
I didn't have a childhood.
-
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
-
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
-
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
-
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
-
Male Message 1 is subconsciously experienced by the boy like this: ‘Some girls in my class already look like movie stars. If they wanted me as much as I want them, then I’d know I was okay. They are genetic celebrities. I am a genetic groupie.’
-
Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.
-
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
-
I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'
-
I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.
-
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
-
I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.
