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.
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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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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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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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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology, society, economy, and institutions.
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When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
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But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
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I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
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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.
