David Eddings Quotes
I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?
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Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
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I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.