David Shields Quotes
The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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Stay big in your work and small in your life.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
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In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.
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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
