David Shields Quotes

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

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• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Superman

• I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Know
  • Red
  • Stress

• Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Say
  • Genes

• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Better

• Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Doing

• I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Day
  • Training

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• …the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Personality

• I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• What I have found is that the best way to unwind is cooking. You only have two hands. If you are chopping veggies, you are forcing yourself to put the phone down or step away from the computer. It's extremely relaxing.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Best
  • Hands
  • Cooking

• The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Single
  • Listen
  • Record Companies

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• A small act is worth a million thoughts.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Small
  • Thoughts

• A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Giving

• I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

  

  David Shields
  • Selfish
  • Bee