David Means Quotes
Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.
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There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.
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Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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Youth who have been exposed to immoral images at a very early age are terrified that they may have already disqualified themselves for missionary service and sacred covenants. ... I want to assure you young people [that] through repentance you can qualify for all the blessings of heaven. That is what the Savior’s Atonement is all about.
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Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.
