Daniel Lyons Quotes
'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.
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I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
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All I'm about is winning.
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'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
