Daniel D. Palmer Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Study first, play afterwards.
