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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You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!
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So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.
