David Simon Quotes
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
David Simon
Quotes to Explore
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
Edith Stein
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Irvine Welsh
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey
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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
Taylor Swift
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers
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I don't like to play the victim.
Barry Pepper
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
Ralph Adams Cram
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Jack Bowman
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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
Karl Abraham
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
Gary Bettman
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner
