David Sedaris Quotes
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
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One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
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I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.
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I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
