David Shields Quotes
As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.
David Shields
Quotes to Explore
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
Patricia Richardson
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
Brown Campbell
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
Vanessa Lachey
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
T. J. Miller
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Vernon Howard
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Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
Abby Elliott
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
Margaret Mead
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What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.
Gerry Francis
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As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.
David Shields