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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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.
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I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
