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?'
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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 thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
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What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
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Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
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Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
