John Delaney Quotes
Maryland's different than Virginia. Maryland has certain advantages that Virginia doesn't have and certain disadvantages... We should just worry about ourselves and not worry about comparisons.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I start nearly every day with a workout.
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I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
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Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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Maryland's different than Virginia. Maryland has certain advantages that Virginia doesn't have and certain disadvantages... We should just worry about ourselves and not worry about comparisons.
