David Means Quotes
You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
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There are a lot of very simple recipes in the book, and there's a huge amount of material to help people understand how things work.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.
