David Shields Quotes

I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CultureDiversityLanguageInternet

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Joe Dante

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Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

Andrea Anders

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We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

Maurice Strong

PastManagementNowNeedResources

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Jeff Bingaman

FamilySupportImmigrationThree

For me, the fall of the Wall came at the exact right time because, I mean, I was 17, basically I hadn't missed anything, unlike the generation of my parents, who were deprived of a lot of things. They couldn't travel, and they couldn't really get ahead in their professional careers. So for me, it was perfect timing.

Tom Wlaschiha

TimeTravelParentsMeGeneration

Everybody has their iPhone cameras, BlackBerry cameras, and I see those cameras pointed up at me all the time now, which is actually really good because of what it does for me and my band. There is no time for us not to be on our toes because they're on all the time whenever you're playing. I think it's very healthy.

Ronnie Montrose

GoodTimeMeThinkYouHealthy

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

Mika

StarsMusicYouWayNeverStar

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

Dolly Parton

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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

David Trimble

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It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Christian Bale

FoolsMeanAudienceSomethingCome

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

Chiang Kai-shek

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The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

Christopher Moore

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