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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Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
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The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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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.
