David Sedaris Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
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I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.
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Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt you.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
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My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.
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I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
