David Shields Quotes

To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the book sounds very phonic: that it sounds like me speaking. And I don't think it's a coincidence that there are six to ten passages that I cadged from various interviews that I did post-'Reality Hunger'.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.

Andrae Crouch

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Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

John Mellencamp

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You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

John T. Chambers

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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

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I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

Mitch McConnell

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I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in.

Liz Goldwyn

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Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

Lord Mountbatten

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I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

Little Richard

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'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

Josh Brolin

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I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

Jonathan Demme

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There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Antonis Samaras

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I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.

Ali Krieger

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