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David Hyde Pierce Quotes

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

David Hyde Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1959

Topics

Feel You Bad Wrong Always Take

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

Time School Poetry Long Summer Out

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

Me Writing Start Book Think Feel

I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

Love Me Diary Inspired Keep Because

'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

Funny Character Ugly Deep Doing

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

Stephanie Beacham

Nothing Hearing Improve Going Worse

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Grief Sympathy You Too Much Well

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Myself West West Coast Something

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

Time Struggle Childhood Me Remember

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

Josh Hutcherson

Girl Heart Food Think Way Always

I always wanted to play with people's hair. I was really into 'The Golden Girls' and how big their hair was. I always had Barbies and Ken dolls, whose hair I wanted to play with and was always styling. I was very lucky - I never had to wonder what I was passionate about. I've always known that I'm really, really passionate about grooming.

Jonathan Van Ness

People Hair Wonder Play Golden Big

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

Douglas Carter Beane

College Me American Pie Songs Set

Within the scientific community, there is healthy skepticism. And the question is, 'How do you ever get to a meaningful null result? How long and how hard do SETI scientists have to look for extraterrestrial intelligence and find nothing before they say, 'There is nothing. We are alone.'

Community Alone Intelligence Result

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