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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It's like with an engineering degree which attracts more men than women, that's just how it is, males are more into the car business and the super sportscar is the pinnacle of that business.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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You cannot have an asset that goes up in price 1% every month or 1% every six months or every day without people starting to start thinking it'll do the same tomorrow, so that's why these bubbles form.
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If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
