David Means Quotes
I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
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Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
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I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
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Great, you ruined my life and you don’t even remember it.
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I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.
