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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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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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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Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
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It is important to know where you come from.
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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.
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With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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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.
