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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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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One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.
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I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.
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Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.'
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.
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Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.
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We can act instead of being acted upon.
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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.
