David Slade Quotes
I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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It wasn't in the cards to work out in football.
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I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.
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Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.
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Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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Over the years, Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.
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A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.
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I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.
