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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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions.
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Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.
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Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
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My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.
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I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
