Darren Hayes Quotes
'I don't feel like I've re-invented myself, I feel like I've re-discovered who I was.'
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
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Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
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One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
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To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
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The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.
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'Misfits' is one of my favorite shows; I think it's a fantastic show.
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'I don't feel like I've re-invented myself, I feel like I've re-discovered who I was.'
