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
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• 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
  • People
  • Writing
  • Attention

• 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
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Rude

• 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
  • Existence
  • Rules
  • Rule

• Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Always
  • Act
  • Head

• I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Always
  • Loved

• As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • War
  • College
  • California

• You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you 'like' that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch 'vomit' not 'like', but they don't give you that option on Facebook.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Sex

• The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup-in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • People
  • Live
  • Experience

• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Heart
  • Brain

• I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Life
  • Women
  • Friends

• 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
  • Good
  • Movie

• 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
  • Up
  • History
  • Wife

• 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
  • People
  • Political

• If we Argentines dare to unite, we will be unstoppable.

  

  Mauricio Macri

• I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

  

  Christopher Guest

• Puma is a brand deeply rooted in sporting lifestyle.

  

  Jochen Zeitz

• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Work
  • Wish

• To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

  

  David Galenson
  • Artist
  • Goal
  • Innovation

• To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

  

  Dan Falk