David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes
Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I think I need security.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!
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I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
