David Shannon Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
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I love oatmeal raisin cookies.
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
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I chose the Nutri-Grain bar because it's really good and I really like oatmeal,
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We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
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Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!
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American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
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These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
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Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.
