David Shields Quotes

I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

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• You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Best
  • Start
  • Tradition

• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  

  Kanye West
  • Paris
  • Possible
  • Land

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Country
  • Political
  • Doing

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Thing

• I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Black
  • Culture

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Political
  • Religious

• I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

  

  Kimberly Caldwell
  • Up
  • Different
  • Air

• I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Waiting
  • Princess

• I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

  

  David Shields
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