David Shields Quotes
Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.David Shields
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
Tavi Gevinson -
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
Sam Kean -
I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
Randy Wayne White -
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Harold Pinter -
I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
Malcolm X -
I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
Camille Paglia
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
R. Kelly -
I'm very passionate.
Abbie Cornish -
Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
Samuel Goldwyn -
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
Victoria Abril -
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. Wilson -
It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
Eberhard Weber
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The psychology of performance in athletic footwear and apparel is very real. Most athletes do not say, 'Just give me what works the best - I don't care what it looks like.' They're very concerned with what it looks like and how it makes them feel.
Mark Parker -
Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.
Louise Erdrich -
When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
Betty Buckley -
The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.
Djimon Hounsou -
Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.
David Shields