Dan Mangan Quotes
We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
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My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'
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It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.
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The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.
