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 would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.
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If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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I respect the people that I lost to.
