Dan Bejar Quotes

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

Dan Bejar

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• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Book
  • Write

• Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Latin
  • Doors

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • My Life

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Power
  • Shopping

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Care

• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • House
  • Sometimes

• I love Channing Tatum!

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love

• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Leadership
  • Doing
  • Class

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

  

  Rick Fox
  • Quite
  • While
  • Beating

• Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Support
  • Democracy

• At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Amazing

• I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.

  

  Jessica Fox
  • Athlete

• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Climate Change
  • Epidemics
  • Nuclear War

• Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Feel
  • Explore
  • Melody