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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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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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!
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Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.
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Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
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A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
