Daniel Keys Moran Quotes
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
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I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
