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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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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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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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
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Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
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I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.
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It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.
