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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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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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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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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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 am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
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Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.
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There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.
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If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
