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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They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
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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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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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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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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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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 president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?
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Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
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I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.
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Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
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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.
