David Johansen Quotes
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
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The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.
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When you fight something like cancer, you not dealing with a person that looks at where you come from or what's your background or what race you are or what ethnicity or whatever. Whatever your culture is, it doesn't care about that. It doesn't sleep - it doesn't get tired - so if you make it about yourself, you're going to fail every time.
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When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.
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I'm afraid of me.
