David Selby Quotes

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

David Selby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 5, 1941

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I take the NASA physical every year.

Jim Lovell

YearNASATakePhysicalEvery

The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.

Joe Kennedy III

LifeTimeExperiencePeaceMeMost

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

Joanna Lumley

WomenYouBaldActorOldUp

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Joe Carnahan

PathPeopleThinkAdmireRepeatGuy

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

John Burroughs

NatureLoveScienceTogetherGoTwo

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.

John Lanchester

WorkMistakeYouBadAcceptOut

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

Jefferson Han

ComputersPowerfulCreatePossible

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

Stella McCartney

JobChallengesBrandTryingEveryday

My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!

Sophie B. Hawkins

FamilySonPeopleParentYoungWant

We've got a great race team.

Robby Gordon

GreatTeamRaceGot

It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

Lisa Hannigan

MusicThinkDoingYouSkillBetween

I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep.

Chelsea Leyland

SleepThinkEnoughNewImportant

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