Dan Mintz Quotes
When you're writing on someone else's show, you don't have to think as hard about nailing the perfect tone because you're kind of just like, 'Here's 20 ideas I thought of, and they can just pick the closest.'
Quotes to Explore
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
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When you're writing on someone else's show, you don't have to think as hard about nailing the perfect tone because you're kind of just like, 'Here's 20 ideas I thought of, and they can just pick the closest.'
