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David Sedaris Quotes

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Listening Guilty Pleasure British

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Quiet Movies Film Vampires

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

Future Action Surprise Goal Means

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

Curiosity Place Way More Human Made

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Business You Lose Meet Halfway Fans

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Good Knowledge Best Government First

I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I Am People Believe Think Generation

Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.

Good Mother New York Thought New

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

Age History People Me Political You

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

Dominique McElligott

School Doing Drama Started Something

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Team You Soccer Orchestra Horns How

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

Power People Hair You Drunk Country

I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.

God Great Support Find Christians

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