David Shields Quotes
You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?David Shields
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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.
Frances Fisher -
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.
Fede Alvarez -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
Mahershala Ali -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
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.
Nate Berkus
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
Ram Charan -
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.
Rachel G. Fox -
You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver -
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
S. Truett Cathy -
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.
Carine Roitfeld
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld -
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.
Barton Gellman -
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.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
Federica Mogherini -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
Gary Clark Jr. -
Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.
Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club -
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
Larry Holmes -
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
Honore de Balzac -
Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.
Poul Anderson -
You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
David Shields