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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Best original song nomination in 2016 should be Wiz Khalifa for "See You Again," but this is an amazing song and it's easily the biggest song out of any of the songs nominated. It was a huge hit. And really, I'm just happy for Weeknd as a person.
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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
