Dan Beachy-Quick Quotes
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
Quotes to Explore
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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I love 70's music.
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
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It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
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At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
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Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
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I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
