David Shields Quotes

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RelationshipAngerThinkGeniusWay

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

Joan Blades

MotherPowerBelieveNewsPageMore

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

TimeSexTroubleUpMostTakes

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Andrew Tobias

LifePeopleControlThinkMoreOver

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

Andrea Arnold

FamilyYouKnowSayWriteUp

I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin.

Rodrigo Duterte

ReputationWillRetire

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Janis Joplin

GoodPeopleTreatTexasThoughtGot

While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

Jose Antonio Vargas

TimeMountainSchoolHigh School

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

Donovan Bailey

CriticismYouPraiseOpen

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

Brendon Urie

GreatCoolVoiceArtistSheHer

I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thought soap operas was going to be the dream at the time - it's obviously now not the dream, but I think soap operas are really cool. Maybe I'll go back to that.

Britt Robertson

TimeCoolMomThinkThoughtDream

I hope to outlive my enemies.

William Sanderson

HopeEnemiesOutlive

Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.

Portia de Rossi

WorkEatingGoTalkNeverAshamed

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