David Small Quotes - Page 2

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• Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

  David Small

  Art, Literature, Admire

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

  David Small

  Writing

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. Kids are kids; they're innocents, they really are. For a long time, no matter what they see, no matter what they're exposed to, they can't get it until they have developed enough.

  David Small

  Believe, Character, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

  David Small

  Character, Funeral, Parent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

  David Small

  Thinking, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she was a monster, and she had subtly been influencing my behavior and my thoughts and my dreams for so long that she was kind of a monster; she was a demon. And when I brought her back to life, I could feel that malevolent presence around me again, that woman who was totally incapable of giving nurturing to anybody, and, you know, her selfishness and her withdrawn indifference to everything but her own needs.

  David Small

  Mother, Dream, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.

  David Small

  Crayon

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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