Dan Amboyer Quotes
We have to try harder to do our best every day, challenge ourselves to better our world.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.
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I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
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Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
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We have to try harder to do our best every day, challenge ourselves to better our world.
