David Fizdale Quotes
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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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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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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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 was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.
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I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really.
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Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.
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I respect the people that I lost to.
