David Adams Richards Quotes
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.
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I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for it. So, I went in and met (director) Toby [Haynes], and as soon as I got into that room, to see how excited everybody was to get this underway and onto the set, it just drew me to it, even more. It was an instant attraction, so I was delighted when I got the offer.
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Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.
