Daniel Alarcon Quotes

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Want
  • Wind
  • Green

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Political
  • Support
  • Powerful

• Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

  

  Jon Heder
  • World
  • Together
  • Wife

• My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Real
  • Way
  • Decisions

• I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.

  

  Alicia Coppola
  • Money
  • Shoes

• Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Trolls

• Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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