Dan Harmon Quotes
When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.
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When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.
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I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.
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When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
