David Massengill Quotes
My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
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I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
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When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.
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I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.
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So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
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Sarcasm doesn't grow on the same stalk as humility.
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My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.
