Dave Smalley Quotes
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I've been very lucky.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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I feel like, especially being around other girls, it's really easy to start picking yourself apart and being like, 'Wow, she looks better than me.'
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If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.
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Luck favors the brave.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.
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Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
