Daniel Keys Moran Quotes
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
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I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.
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'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
