Dan Howell Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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I regret all of my books.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!
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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
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Do whatever you have to do to be happy.
