David Muir Quotes
It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.
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The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.
