David Guterson Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
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Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
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David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.
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My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.
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First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.
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What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
