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David Liss Quotes

I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1966

Topics

Dreams Time Thought Remember Back

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

Women Children Problems Years Get

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

Ideas Drama Say More Abstract Far

Every show is a mess at its first preview. No one's had enough time to rehearse in costumes, traffic patterns backstage haven't been worked out, machinery weighing thousands of pounds is being operated for the first time. And, also, it's the first time all the material you've written is before the public.

Time Enough You Traffic First Time

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

Think Interesting Talking Trying Bad

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

Trevor McDonald

Love I Am People Think Giving Give

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Rod Blagojevich

Opportunity Trust Politics People

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

Michelle Huneven

Mother Christmas Standing Her Last

Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.

Feel Down Emotions Real Clearly

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Wait I Can Go Next Out Sit

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Mother Music Teacher Singing Up

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friends No Friends Never Who Made

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.

God Happy Writing Thinking Lost Oh

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