David Shields Quotes

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think the single most important thing for a job interview is leave the phone in your bag and do not look at it for 20 minutes.

Joanna Coles

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I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.

Joan Didion

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'Game of Thrones' is great. Love it.

Jesse Metcalfe

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I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Andy Stern

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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Robert Bork

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I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

Min Jin Lee

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If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

Jonathan Groff

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Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

Dionne Warwick

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I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.

Christina Milian

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When we worked with the organization that represents students, they were unequivocal: They want debt-free college. And for many of those students, that has to include the total cost of attendance.

Brian Schatz

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My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

William Kidd

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