Dan Hill Quotes
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
