David Simon Quotes
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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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.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
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Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.
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When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
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Crime does not pay as well as politics.
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People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
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What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.
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To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
