Dan Quinn Quotes
The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
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I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
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The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
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I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
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The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.
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Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.
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The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.
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The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
