Dave Sim Quotes
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
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Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.
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Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying. 6
