Daphne Guinness Quotes
Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.
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I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
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I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.
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Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
