David Shapiro Professions : PoetBorn : January 2, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by David Shapiro When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes. David Shapiro rightspeopleenemy I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive. David Shapiro nakedbelieverooms I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. David Shapiro lawyerwritinglove-is I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer. David Shapiro lawyer I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers. David Shapiro numbersbookpeople Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do. David Shapiro blind-spotspeopleworld We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation. David Shapiro couplememoriesthinking There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things. David Shapiro silenceremembertrying I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it. David Shapiro camerasbelievethinking I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking. David Shapiro filmshowsmade Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
