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David Means Quotes

I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Small Deep Moments I Can Go

I've always been a big guy, whether it's been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of... I guess the term would be 'popular.' I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you'd think a fat kid might have to deal with.

Bullying Think Fat You Young Never

Sushi is taking over the world. It's like pizza: you can get it everywhere.

Pizza World You Sushi Over Get

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

Rufus Wainwright

Myself Me Direction Artist Person

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

Tired People Evil Sick American

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn't sustain us.

Day Ice Ice Cream Every Day Eat Us

I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet.

Home Cats Sister Animals Wildlife

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Christina Ricci

Imagination Think Acting Everything

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Time Stand Want Movies Test

Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

Time Political Drag Statement Get

Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

Women Knowledge Empathy World Deep

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.

Government College Financial Giving

'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.

Pawel Pawlikowski

History Story Humanity Focused Out

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