David Means Quotes
I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
