David Massengill Quotes
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
Quotes to Explore
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
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Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.
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I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
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War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
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I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.
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I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.
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To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference.
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We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.
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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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No vice is so bad as advice.
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All I can do is to try and make the future better.
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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.
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I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
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Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.
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If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!
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Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
