David Means Quotes
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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Bullying is a national epidemic.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.
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New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
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The flip side of humiliation is pride.
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Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
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Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.
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If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace.
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Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.
