David Nail Quotes

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Young
  • Hearing
  • Rumors

• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • World
  • Friends
  • True

• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Choices
  • Happen
  • Fact

• 'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Done
  • Film
  • First

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Rich
  • Security
  • More

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

  

  T.I.
  • Independent
  • Agent
  • Sponsors

• I actually hate shopping.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Actually

• I couldn't kill a fly.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Fly

• There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Children
  • Best

• I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Free
  • Community
  • Smile

• I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
  • Care
  • Criticism

• I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Children
  • School
  • Love

• I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handle everything via email. We've been in the business of automation. We've never really valued full service.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Business
  • Question
  • Service

• The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Chance

• I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Think
  • Know
  • Play

• The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.

  

  John Strachan

• I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

  

  David Nail