Dylan O'Brien Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.
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I'm carrying on a tradition. But I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of somebody else. I'm proud of my parents, and the only way that I can prove it to them is to take what they gave me and work my head off.
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I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
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What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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You don't disrupt genius at work.
