David Means Quotes
I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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I am happy in Paris.
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.
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I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'
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I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.
