David Fizdale Quotes
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.
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It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
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Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
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I have to be honest: I feel like I live in a constant state of rage, and I think a lot of black people do.
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Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people rebellious?- Because those above them meddle in their lives That's why they're rebellious Why do people regard death so lightly?- Because they are so involved with their own living That's why they regard death so lightly In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.
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I respect the people that I lost to.
