Dan Butler Quotes
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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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.
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When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.
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To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
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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.
