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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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Captain Beefheart
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
Yami Gautam
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Jacki Weaver
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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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.
Yuna
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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?'
Gabriel Mann
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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.
J. D. Salinger
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
Zoey Deutch
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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.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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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.'
E. L. Konigsburg
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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.
Palmer Luckey
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
Jack Ma
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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!
Warren Spector
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
Bam Margera
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
Talulah Riley
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams
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There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic.
Tyne Daly
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Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.
Jillian Hervey
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Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
David Shields