David Shields Quotes
A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
