Darin Strauss Quotes
My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
Quotes to Explore
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.
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I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
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People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.
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My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
