David Sedaris Quotes
Friends always say, 'How can you eat those? I read in the paper that they're made from hog's lips.''And...?''And hearts and eyelids.'
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
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I have always known that I wanted to be a singer and I knew that meant sacrificing some things for my dream. When I am home I hang out with my friends and go to dances, so I try and partake in some of the activities that I miss out on.
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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Friends always say, 'How can you eat those? I read in the paper that they're made from hog's lips.''And...?''And hearts and eyelids.'
