David Sedaris Quotes
Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.
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This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm'd - see here it is -I hold it towards you.
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Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.
