David Budbill Quotes
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.
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Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
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What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.
