Dan Webster Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a Buddhist.
-
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
-
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
-
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
-
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
-
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
-
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
-
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
-
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
-
In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
-
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
-
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
-
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
-
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
-
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
-
In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
-
I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.
-
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
-
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
-
I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.
-
For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
