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 am happy in Paris.
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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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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.
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Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
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I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.
