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David Means Quotes

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1961

Topics

I Am Place Distance Person Fiction

I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.

Jill Paton Walsh

Life Children Great Criticism Wrong

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

Building Vanity Up Muscles Different

I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.

Learning Think Help Done Focused

Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

Myself I Am Pressure Trying Expect

I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.

Community People Feel You Gay Kind

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

Robin Coste Lewis

Good I Am Artist Through Curse Am

You see how can you help your team, help yourself improve, and that's what I try to figure out throughout the season.

Russell Westbrook

Yourself Team Help You Try See

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Me Trying Teach Piano Something He

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Music Day People World You Casual

The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.

Marriage People American Civil Rights

Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

Live Passion Vision Dedication I Am

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.

People Game Enough You Want Ahead

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