David Shapiro Quotes
I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
David Shapiro
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
Mandy Moore
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Ma Ying-jeou
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
Dan Stevens
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
Zooey Deschanel
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
Sam Shepard
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
Quincy Jones
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With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
Tahar Rahim
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
Gary Johnson
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Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.
Kevin Bales
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
Nathan Lane
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
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Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Your biggest threat is the person who knows the most about you.
Susan Blommaert
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I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
David Shapiro
