David Shields Quotes
You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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It's hard enough to be in a marriage and then have a kid, then kids: it changes everything.
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There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
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You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
