David Guterson Quotes
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
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I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
