Dan Quinn Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.
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The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
