Darin Strauss Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
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The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.
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I push myself to the limit.
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Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
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Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.