Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I just love dancing.
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I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
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The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
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I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
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You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.
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The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.
