David Sedaris Quotes
My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
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If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
