Dan Quinn Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.
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If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
