David Eddings Quotes
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I like things simple.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
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An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.
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My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
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I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
