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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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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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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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.
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We find influences in people, art, music, literature, photography. As long as it makes you feel something that’s a good starting point!
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My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
