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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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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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've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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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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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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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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It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
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The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.
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The sad side of a woman's life. We do as we like and we never realise what damage it is leading to.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
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What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
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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.
