David Shields Quotes
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
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I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.
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For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
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This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
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I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
