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I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
David S. Goyer
Alien
Like
Look
Felt
Always
Encountered
Us
Even
Species
Ever
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
David S. Goyer
People
Telling
Imperfect
Like
Most
Because
Stories
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
David S. Goyer
Love
Science
Writing
Reading
Worlds
Otherwise
Books
Geek
About
Mystery
Stuff
Like
Make
Science Fiction
Comic
Comic Books
Up
Fiction
Grew
Fantasy
Creating
Pulp
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it's hard to take criticism and all the things like that.
David S. Goyer
Family
You
People
Criticism
Pressures
Torture
Take
Pros
Like
Know
Around
Understand
How
Material
Am
How Much
Friends
Artist
Being
Much
Your
Hard
Cons
Things
Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.
David Sanborn
Music
You
Sky
Out
Open
Like
Know
I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.
David Sanborn
People
Down
Think
Would
Something
Given
Bland
Like
Real
Hear
Middle
Interesting
Choice
Right
Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
David Satcher
Women
Smoking
Three
Year
Every
Significant
Would
Percent
Only
Like
Smoke
Because
Quit
Help
Who
Two
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
You
Control
Nothing
Every
Immediate
Seeing
Performance
Over
Like
Most
Audience
Different
Actor
Play
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
David Sedaris
Whatever
About
Write
Like
Reserve
Right
I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.
David Sedaris
Good
You
People
Think
Like
Policy
Always
Who
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.
David Sedaris
School
Mind
Books
High
High School
About
Mental
Scenarios
Had
Head
Adventure
Over
Since
New
Like
Tape
Replay
Same
Just
Wander
Anywhere
Bike
Riding
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
David Sedaris
Love
Me
You
Book
People
Giving
Book Signings
Worn
Say
Bad
Would
People Say
Someone
Never
Part
Attention
Like
Hours
How
How Much
Go
Line
Off
Child
Getting
Oh
Just
Love You
Loves
Much
Standing
Why
Away
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.
David Sedaris
People
Nothing
Too
Kind
Plumbing
Had
Generous
Like
French
French People
Were
Anything
Fields
Electricity
Imagined
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
David Sedaris
Will
Books
About
Like
Tape
Listen
Just
Anything
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.
David Sedaris
Time
Me
Satire
Writing
Melodrama
OK
Feel
Glee
Like
Know
Cry
Because
Makes
Itself
Aware
Watch
Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.
David Sedaris
Truth
Myself
Day
Truth Is
Think
One Day
Someone
Like
Also
Doing
Shirts
Iron
Get
Them
Might
Really
Used
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.
David Selby
You
People
World
Own
Enter
Able
Like
Any
Whether
Succeed
Creating
Realm
Your
Special
Tolkien
Thing
Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.
David Sheff
Heart
Diabetes
Cancer
Addiction
Else
Like
Heart Disease
Disease
Anything
Anything Else
Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They've suffered some trauma in their life. They have risk factors like mental illness, people with learning disabilities, with attention problems.
David Sheff
Life
Learning
People
Problems
Whatever
Some
Mental
Risk
Mental Illness
More
Disabilities
Factors
Attention
Like
Likely
Because
Certain
Use
Illness
Trauma
Suffered
Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try to avoid - people obviously strung out, often homeless and possibly psychotic. I didn't think my son could become addicted, but he had.
David Sheff
Son
People
Try
Thought
Become
Think
Addict
Addicted
Out
Possibly
Kinds
See
Strung
Could
Had
He
Knew
Like
Most
Obviously
Were
Often
Psychotic
Us
Avoid
Homeless
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.
David Sheff
Benefits
Mother
Bitterness
First
Walks
Baby
Spent
Berkeley
Ours
Visiting
Parks
He
Divorce
Divorced
Like
His
Years
Child
Nick
Playing
Zoo
Savagery
Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
David Sheff
Death
Philip
Brokenhearted
About
Remarkably
Talented
Like
Us
Many
Actor
The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.
David Sheff
You
People
Sometimes
Other
Addiction
Everything
Fact
Like
Tragic
Die
Many
Illnesses
Right
My son is living proof that those like him can not only be treated, but can live lives free of the pain that plagued them and the disease that controlled them.
David Sheff
Son
Free
Pain
Live
Living
Those
Proof
Only
Like
Him
Disease
Controlled
Them
Lives
Living Proof
Treated
I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.
David Shields
Love
Book
Hers
Those
Some
Costello
Annie
Like
Liked
Also
His
Very
Stories
Brief
Elizabeth
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
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