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David Shields Quotes

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Why Novel Which Cling Fervently

The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.

Learn Gender You Gay Inequality Pay

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

Life Age Joy Sweet You Early

Nom is a place for food lovers.

Food Place Lovers

I never thought we'd live in an age where we'd get to 2008's 'Iron Man,' which I think is a perfect movie.

Live Age Man Think Thought Perfect

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

You Wrong Right Everything Left

Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.

Fun Research Writing More Than Much

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Good Myself Me Think Pressure Push

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

Passion Holiday Said Done Jazz Monk

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

Children People Middle-Aged Four Any

The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.

Little Things Sometimes Line Little

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Women Business You See Pass Few

If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

Girl Child Free You Possible She

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