David Ives Quotes
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
