David Shields Quotes

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I know I've got the right friends because they understand when they haven't seen me for three months and then when I do see them, it's exactly as it was before.

Jessie J

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I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

Melora Hardin

LifeSingingMy LifeDancingBeen

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

Mel Brooks

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By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

Ann Voskamp

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When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

Andy Serkis

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I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Steve Buscemi

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One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

Stephen Saad

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I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

Tomi Adeyemi

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Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.

Matt Berninger

BestKnowDeadCaveJeansOwn

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

Luke Evans

GoodLookingEnoughBoyNeverFair

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

Brian Stelfreeze

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

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