David Crabb Quotes
It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
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There are millions and millions of products out there. You can look at eBay and Amazon. You can look at every product on the planet, but trying to figure out which one is best for you is really the challenge.
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I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.
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My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
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We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.
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The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
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No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
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It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
