David Rees Quotes
I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
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I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
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I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
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I like certain people's work better than my own.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.
