David A. Siegel Quotes
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he's not black. It was an interesting thing to read.
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The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.
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The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
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I haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future.
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Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
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I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
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I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.
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That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.
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Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
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When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.
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It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
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If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
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Labourers had diminished, game had tripled. The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.
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But what gave him the most satisfaction was going back through the pages to read about his first story appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. That afternoon he'd bought Bird the largest bag of lemon drops he could find. 'He gives her candy,' she had said, remembering too.
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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.
