Dave Sim Quotes
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.
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Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.
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No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)
