David Shields Quotes
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
Quotes to Explore
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
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Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.
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And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
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Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
