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Going Quotes by David Sedaris
- If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.
- I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,…
- I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be…
- Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home…
- Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into…
- I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great.…
- Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them…
- The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and…
- Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
- She said, “I’m going to have you fired.” I had two people say that to me today, “I’m going to have you fired.” Go ahead,…
- In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm…
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- These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. — Julian Assange
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong