David Foster Wallace Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
