David Rakoff Quotes
My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
