David Liss Quotes
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.
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I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.
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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide… If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.
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We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
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I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
