David Muir Quotes
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
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I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.
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I don't exist without writing.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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I think I was always a curious kid.
