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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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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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 get nervous for everything - literally everything.
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.
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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.
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Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.
