Dave Morin Quotes
I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
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I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
