Dan Monson Quotes
Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
Quotes to Explore
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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Of the web It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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Standing outside the fire;Standing outside the fire.Life is not tried, it is merely survivedIf you're standing outside the fire.
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I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
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My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.
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I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
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I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
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There are no instant solutions.
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We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.
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I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.
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Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
