David Shields Quotes
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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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.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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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.
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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.'
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Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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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.
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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.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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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.
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He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.
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Boarding school is a wicked thing.
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In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
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It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.
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As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.
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I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
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All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
