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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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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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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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
