David Small Quotes

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

David Small

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1945

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When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

Joanne Froggatt

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People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

Jeremy Renner

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Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

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Not every character that you play is going to be somebody that you like or love, but every character that you play has a story that is worth telling. If you're not the person to tell it, that's one thing. But if you don't want to tell it because you are afraid of the unpopularity of the character, I view that as a missed opportunity.

Sterling K. Brown

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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

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If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.

Russell Pearce

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You can't predict injuries. That's one thing you can't do.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.

Douglas Brunt

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One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.

Alissa Quart

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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Phil McGraw

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