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David Rakoff Quotes

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

Lie Writing Find Done Difficult

I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?

Jennette McCurdy

Me Fake You Look Pictures Know

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Book Reading Person Want Write She

I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.

Lucky Been Directors Worked

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poetry Me Writing End Language Kind

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

World Born Kind Others Reason Only

Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

Stars Past Opportunities Advice Run

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Christy Mathewson

Early Say Boy Ball Begin Playing

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

Music People Impact Country Why

There's always a certain concern whenever you go and shoot a field piece: that maybe all the elements won't come together, knowing that you have limited time to tell a story, hoping that you get all the elements you need, hoping the subjects are comfortable.

Time Together Story You Go Knowing

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Day Acceptance Control You Powerful

It took me a very long time to be comfortable in my own skin.

Time Me Long Skin Long Time My Own

I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

Work Funny Love Girl Great Easy

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