David Shields Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I get homesick.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.
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Ethel and Bernard returned from their Honymoon with a son and hair a nice fat baby called Ignatius Bernard. They soon had six more children four boys and three girls and some of them were twins which was very exciting. The Earl only got two rarther sickly girls called Helen and Marie because the last one looked slightly french.
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I want to put out music I really believe in, and when I felt that was threatened, I lashed out at everybody.
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So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
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As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
