David Shields Quotes
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.
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I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
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Good poets borrow; great poets steal.
