Davy Rothbart Quotes
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There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.
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I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.
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But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.
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On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.
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My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
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I have a black Grandma and white Grandma. My white Grandma lives in Fort Lauderdale, paints, and teaches bridge. She's wonderful. My black Grandma, equally wonderful, is my neighbor across the street, Bobbie, who's always insisted that I call her Grandma, and honestly, over the years she's become a real Grandma to me.
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Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.
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The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.
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I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.
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In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.
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The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
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