Daniel Lyons Quotes
I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.
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I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.
