Dave Gorman Quotes
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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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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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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 don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New Jersey. I'd come home and go out to work down at the Shore. The early jobs, I remember, were $5, $6 a night. And I lived in the projects right until the time I became successful.
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I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair
