Dan Phillips Quotes
Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
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I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
