David Milch Quotes
Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
Quotes to Explore
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.
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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
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I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
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Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
