David Shields Quotes
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
David Shields
Quotes to Explore
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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'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.
David Oyelowo
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If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.
John Frankenheimer
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A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
Craig Newmark
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
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Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.
Ashley Wagner
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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
