Dan Amboyer Quotes
It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.
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I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
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Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
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It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.
