Dave Pelzer Quotes
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.
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Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.
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What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
