David Shields Quotes
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.
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Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
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My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
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Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
