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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Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.
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Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.
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And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
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I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
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I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
