Dan Gilbert Quotes
The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I'm not politically correct.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
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Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
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If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
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Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.
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The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.
