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There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

~David Schwimmer

Topics: Actor Audience Control Different Every Immediate Like Most Nothing Over Performance Play Seeing You

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And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

~David Schwimmer

Topics: Another Committing Every Every Time New Series Show Six Start Thing Time Years You

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I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Aid Argument Been Description Diary Every February Invaluable Joke Just Keeping Later Morning Most Often Quote Said Say Someone Something Use Whining Winning Write Years You I Can

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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Afternoon Became Day Did Ever Every Every Day First Force Had Identity Myself Part Since Started Then Thinking Twenty Without Writing Written

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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

~David Shields

Topics: Because Become Black Categories Conscious Dangerous Dangerous Thing Every How Improvement Interaction Maybe People Rather Self-Conscious Self-Consciousness Than Thing Thinking Which White

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Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

~David Shields

Topics: Artist Cut Every Know Previous Warhol Whether Whoever William Work Writer You

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I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

~David Shields

Topics: Book Deliver Every Hate Know Mystery Person Publisher Who Would Writer Year You

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Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

~David Shields

Topics: About Almost Answer Answers Back Book Disorder Effect Every Human Many Problem Same Seems Stuttering Suffer Theories Theory

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The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

~David Shields

Topics: Contemporary Entertain Essential Every Existential Gesture Get Hate Investigation Me Novel Page People Them Thrilling Towards Turn Want Where

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Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

~David Shields

Topics: Bush Despise Every George George Bush He Myself Quality Realized Self Worst

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