David Shields Quotes

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1956

Topics

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The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Joel Sternfeld

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My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.

Robert Scoble

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The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

John Vinocur

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You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

John Polson

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I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Stephen King

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Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Stephen Kinzer

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The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

Rodney Crowell

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Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then ,I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist.

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War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

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Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

Clark Blaise

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Everyone always remembers my dancing.

Coco Rocha

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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Brian Ferneyhough

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