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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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 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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'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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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
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I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
