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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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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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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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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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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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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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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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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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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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.
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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.
