David Sedaris Quotes
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
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I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
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'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.
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When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.