Daniel Keyes Quotes
Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I want to love life.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
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I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
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Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
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I'd like to have a go at directing.
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Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
