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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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
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You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
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Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
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Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.
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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.
