Dan Hill Quotes
I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
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I love my black shirts; I have usually 14 of them at any one time.
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You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn on the radio and try to figure out how to play popular songs.
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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
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I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
