David Sedaris Quotes
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!
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I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
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Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
