Dave Gorman Quotes
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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I'm always surprised at how many people remember me from 'Degrassi.'
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I'd encourage anyone at any level to take lessons, as it really can turn you into a different kind of skier.
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I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair
