David Means Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey -
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
Eddie Perez -
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom -
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
P. J. Harvey -
There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
Paige VanZant -
I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
Maeve Binchy -
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
Ted Cruz -
I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
Natalia Vodianova
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I'd love to make a thriller.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
Camila Alves -
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
Abby Wambach -
One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Rachel Kushner -
If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
Vince Vaughn
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Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.
Chance The Rapper -
I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
Penelope Cruz -
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
Dante Alighieri -
I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!
Marissa Jaret Winokur -
Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.
David Means