David Shields Quotes

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

David Shields

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• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Long
  • Couple

• I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Day
  • Cry
  • Conscious

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • Like
  • Beauty

• As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Pride
  • Story

• 'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • History
  • Show
  • SNL

• If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Tone

• I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Just Because

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • American
  • Achievement

• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Sad
  • Angry

• The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Truth

• I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

  

  Zach Braff
  • She
  • Liar
  • Liars

• Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wrong
  • Side
  • Apology

• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  

  James Rollins
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Story
  • Difference

• It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

  

  David Shields
  • Animal
  • Apology