David Simon
David Simon
David Judah Simonis an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve yearsand wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streetsand co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhoodwith Ed Burns. The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street, on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth9 February 1960
CountryUnited States of America
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.
Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.
Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.
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Awakening into love is a lifelong path.
The show is structured like a visual novel of sorts, ... And these writers understand the complexity of theme.
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We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has
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