Dan Falk Quotes
To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.
Dan Falk
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
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I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
Karin Slaughter
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
Maika Monroe
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R. D. Laing
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
Rachel Roberts
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These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.
Elizabeth Banks
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My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.
Ken Liu
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Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
Dinaw Mengestu
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If we Argentines dare to unite, we will be unstoppable.
Mauricio Macri
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I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
Christopher Guest
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Marsilio Ficino
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You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life.
Linda Perry
4 Non Blondes
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I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.
Jeff Baena
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His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.
Hermann Hesse
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
William Faulkner
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I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
Catherynne M. Valente
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To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.
Dan Falk