Daniel Lyons Quotes
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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
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When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.
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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
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All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
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Th’ dead ar-re always pop’lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an’ refuse to help his fam’ly, all in wan night.
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Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess, than that by which this man found himself king.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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All is race, there is no other truth.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.
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I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.
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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.
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It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're locked into Apple devices.
