Dabo Swinney Quotes
It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.
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Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.
