Daniel Baldwin Quotes
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
