David Sedaris Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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I'm curvy.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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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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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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I am not a party person.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I like to dress up every now and then.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
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Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice
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Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons and jesters than we are to whistle-blowers or moral guides. Accepting our rather insignificant place in society can be depressing - but it's also freeing.
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We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I do plan to return to golf one day. I just don't know when that day will be.
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If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
