David Guterson Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
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When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
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I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
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I'm in bed by 10, but I may not actually go to sleep until 11. It doesn't take long. I just breathe in and out maybe 10 times, and that does it.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
