David Guterson Quotes
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
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My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex.
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When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.
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I'm not an urban person.
