Dylan Minnette Quotes

I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real. It's sugar-coated. There's no depth to it.

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• When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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  • New York
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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Teenager
  • Ways
  • Normal

• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Work
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• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Self

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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  • Country
  • Me

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
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• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Song
  • You

• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • High
  • Game
  • Pretty

• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • School
  • Serious
  • Place

• While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Different
  • Free

• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  

  Maimonides
  • Fall
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• It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

  

  Randy West
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  • Same

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
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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.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Job
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  • Moon

• Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Country
  • Laws
  • India

• I do not think classical music faces any threat because new music is being made through computer, as the real charm of classical is its purity, and one who is seeking purity will surely find classical music in spite of so many alternatives.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • Real

• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?

  

  Bono U2
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• When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

  

  Bruce Schneier
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• One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real. It's sugar-coated. There's no depth to it.

  

  Dylan Minnette
  • Time
  • Real
  • Teen