David Autor Quotes
I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
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Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
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I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
