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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Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.
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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.
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I love Jason Bateman. He's so funny.
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I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.
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I am very interested in behind the scenes, and I am very creative.
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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.
