David Zabel Quotes
Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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Have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.
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I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.
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I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
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When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
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One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
