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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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.
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They are in bad faith - they are afraid - and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.
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I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
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Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
