David Quammen Quotes
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
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The mobiles started when I went to see w:Piet Mondrian|Mondrian in Paris, 1930. I was impressed by several colored rectangles he had on the wall. Shortly after that I made some mobiles.
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It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.
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I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.
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Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism.
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You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
