David Cross Quotes
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I never read about photography.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
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I think our motto should be, post-9-11, 'raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'
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It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.
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There are so many restaurants that cook for themselves and think they are different. But it is always about making your guest feel special.
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All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
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If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
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I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
