Dan Black Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.
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We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
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I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.
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I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.
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Pittsburgh is home. I was born there, and it will always have priority in that respect.
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The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.
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The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.
