David Grubbs Quotes
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.
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My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.
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I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
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Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
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I remember it all for the most part. I remember it well enough that I don't need to see it again. I felt like (the arm) was going to fall off, so I was just trying to hold it. I've never felt anything like that, period.
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In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.
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Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.
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There's part of me that is a strict materialist.
