Daniel Johns Quotes
Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
