David Shields Quotes
I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am a just man.
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To align with our new strategy to enhance the Windows device ecosystem, we are integrating Microsoft Mobile Device Sales (MMDS) underneath the Consumer Channels Group (CCG).
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
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I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.
