David Quotes
Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.
Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.
The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.
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.
Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.
My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.
When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.
Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.
I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.
I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.
I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.
The best # gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, # happier , and more at # peace .
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.
Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.
In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.
