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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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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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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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
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I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
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I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
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My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
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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.
