Daron Malakian Quotes
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
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Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
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Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
