David Sedaris Quotes

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
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• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
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  • Running

• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
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  • Page
  • Twitter

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
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  • Dead

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

  

  Jack Hannah
  • Want
  • Alone
  • Best

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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  • Tradition

• Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
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• My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Money
  • Know
  • Less

• If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • You
  • Joy
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• Not many people know 'Hellblazer.'

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • People

• I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

  

  Kristin Hersh
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• i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

  

  David Sedaris
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