David Sedaris Quotes

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

David Sedaris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1956

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In the '60s, I sat with my dad in frozen Wrigley Field at Bears games.

Jim Irsay

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Jesse Jackson

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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

John Irving

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Max Eastman

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We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Andy Taylor

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Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Amy Carter

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

Steven Pinker

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Really, the arc for the first season of 'Luke Cage' is 'hero.' How does one become a hero? What does one feel about being a hero? How does one live their life and eventually go through the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross stages of grief until the acceptance is, 'Fine, I'm a hero.' This is what it is.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

Chester Brown

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'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

Clive Barker

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