David Means Quotes
I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious.
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Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.
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I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.
