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David Shields
American
Author
Born:
Jul 22
,
1956
Art
Life
Me
People
Think
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
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Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.
David Shields
Thought
Ran
Administration
Minutes
About
Segment
Had
Between
Piece
Reagan
Up
Commercial
Thank
Difference
Rhetoric
Them
Produced
Show
Team
Actions
The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.
David Shields
Burden
Our
Evoke
Embody
Mortal
Between
Condition
Difference
Explore
Aware
Coordinate
Consciousness
Humans
The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
David Shields
Reality
Writer
Make
Understand
His
Trying
American
Hands
Then
Much
Full
Describe
Credible
I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.
David Shields
Life
Art
Writing
My Life
Worry
Machine
More
Am
Wonder
Person
Done
Just
Anymore
Either
Really
You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.
David Shields
You
Book
Political
Amazing
Think
Easily
Could
He
Quite
Quotes
Which
Really
Serious
Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.
David Shields
Good
Enough
Teenagers
Market
Relatively
Considering
Athletes
Able
Highest
Highest Level
Exploit
Should
Who
Professional
Professional Athletes
Brief
Play
Level
Careers
The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.
David Shields
Own
YouTube
Twitter
Our
Risen
Individual
Via
Us
Each
Now
Level
Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.
David Shields
Nothing
Changes
Project
Ability
Remains
Individual
Throw
Weight
Message
Around
His
Really
I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.
David Shields
School
City
Writers
Attend
Most
Iowa
Passionate
Did
Graduate
Graduate School
Where
Games
Workshop
Thing
Basketball
University
Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
David Shields
Sports
Better
Passion
Our
Approximately
Attachment
Beat
Because
Territorial
Reverse
Than
Your
Team
Deeply
I'm a sucker for sports movies.
David Shields
Sports
Movies
Sucker
The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
David Shields
Life
Sports
Song
Earth
Striving
Physical
Economic
Beyond
Becomes
Praise
Existence
Itself
Any
Movie
Here
Necessity
A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
David Shields
Reality
Book
Lie
Writing
Treat
Focus
Lying
Appropriation
Topic
Hunger
Would
Would-Be
About
Major
Like
Terms
Without
Permitted
Being
Plagiarism
Mean
Engaging
Deeply
Hardly
I do not think it feasible to examine the phenomenon of hatefulness without being hateful.
David Shields
Think
Hateful
Examine
Feasible
Without
Being
Phenomenon
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