David Shields Quotes
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.David Shields
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
Fleur East -
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon -
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee -
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
Kabir Bedi -
September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
Adam Driver
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
When I taught, all my best students were women.
Zaha Hadid -
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Mac Thornberry -
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
Barbara W. Tuchman -
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
Camille Paglia
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But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
Radha Mitchell -
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
Dan Rather -
My mom went to that same doctor and got a butt lift. It's a little too lifted, I think, alright. Now every time she farts only dogs can hear it.
Larry the Cable Guy -
He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.
Edward Heath -
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.
Jodi Picoult
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A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.
Haruki Murakami -
The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!
Pixie Lott -
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.
Prince William -
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
David Shields