David Means Quotes
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
David Means
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt
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It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.
Sam Hunt
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
Queen Latifah
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush
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My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
J. Cole
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Ted Allen
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
Abbie Cornish
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Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
Sally Schneider
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
Tavi Gevinson
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
Dani Shapiro
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When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
Carl Jung
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
Taylor Phinney
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
David Means
