David Shields Quotes
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.
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I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
