David Shields Quotes
Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.
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I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.
