Dan Morgenstern Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
