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 want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
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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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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.
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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
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We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
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If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
