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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.
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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
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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.
