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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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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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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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.
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Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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Few people know how to be old.
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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.
