David Sedaris Quotes
But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.
David Sedaris
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
Jack Kevorkian
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
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People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
Victoria Pratt
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I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.
Felicity Jones
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
C. V. Raman
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair
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Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.
Bobby Allison
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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
Charles Bukowski
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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
Brad Garrett
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If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
Vaclav Havel
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If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.
Donald Miller
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But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.
David Sedaris