David Means Quotes
I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
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I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.
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You could try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay them. But, you won't take the sting out of these words before I say them.
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I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
