David Sedaris Quotes
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don't know about him is that, before 'Lord of the Rings,' he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.
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We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
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Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.
