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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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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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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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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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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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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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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Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't take The freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roads And bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast. And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition.
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The medieval student had to be paleographer, editor, and publisher of the authors he read. (p. 109)
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I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.
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I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' I said, 'Well then, I'll beat my head against that wall.' I quite literally began hitting things, and developed a music of percussion that involved noises.
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All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.
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I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
