David Storey Quotes
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.
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What unites them is an almost reckless desire to test themselves in the most extreme circumstances. In many respects the life they have chosen is a complete rejection of the hyped, consumerist American dream as it is dished out in reality TV shows and pop-song lyrics. They've chosen asceticism over consumption. Instead of celebrating their individualism, theyíve subjugated theirs to the collective will of an institution. Their highest aspiration is self-sacrifice over self-preservation.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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It's dead -- for the time being. I think we're in a dark period right now. They're going after growers and seed dealers, and more people are being charged with simple possession.
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I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
