David Crabb Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I am happy in Paris.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
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A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
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Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.
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I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.
