Dan Farmer Quotes

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Me
  • Decision

• As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• This bikini made me a success.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Success
  • Me
  • Made

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Words
  • Me
  • Inspired

• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • More
  • Relief
  • Pitcher

• I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Friend
  • Helped
  • Stylist

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Me

• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Deliberately

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Planning

• The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Long
  • Book
  • Power

• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Music
  • Book
  • Stars

• I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Mother
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Judge

• When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Me
  • More
  • Supposed