David Crabb Quotes
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.
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I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
