David Shields Quotes
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
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It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
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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.
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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.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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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.
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I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
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Foolish prideIs all that I have left, so let me hideThe tears and the sadness you gave meWhen you said goodbyeWalk on by
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... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.
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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
