David Shields Quotes
Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
David Shields
Quotes to Explore
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
Camryn Manheim
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
Imelda Staunton
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
Campbell Scott
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I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
Zoe Cassavetes
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
Kate Seredy
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I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.
Danny Aiello
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From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
Alicia Keys
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You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.
John Berger
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It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
David Shields
