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David Shields Quotes

I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Art Thought Reality American

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

Jerry Lewis

Life You Take Cannot Interviews

Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better.

Megan Mullally

Marriage Losing Better Gay Possible

I always loved being in London and being near my parents.

Sophie Winkleman

Parents Loved London Always Being

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Tracy Morgan

Drama Comedian

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

Tom Selleck

Time Political Long Long Time Get

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

Mike Tyson

Me Out Historian Freaks

I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.

Louis Leterrier

You Movies Run Marathon Over Head

You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.

Diego Costa

Team Win Game Help You Know

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

Denis Leary

Love Writing Process You Television

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Chris Cornell

Alone Child Listen Over Room Sit

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

Chesley Sullenberger

Live People Choose Price Important

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

Brian Selznick

Work Smart People Think You Dumb