David Liss Quotes
I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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What xRapid allows you to do is to have real-time liquidity.
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When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.
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I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.
