Landon Donovan Quotes
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
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I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.
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Because our father played professional soccer, being in the spotlight never felt weird to me and my brother. We always felt we could do anything.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
