Dan Payne Quotes

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

Dan Payne

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• You can't hire someone to practice for you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Practice
  • Someone

• I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Think

• Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.

  

  Anatole France

• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life

• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Cold
  • Bitter

• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  

  David Brinkley

• As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

  

  David MacKenzie

• I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.

  

  Duncan Jones

• I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

  

  Eric Bogosian

• There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• We have a long way to go in the world in all industries. If I'm in the situation where I have equal experience to the other actor and my role is just as significant, there is no reason why I should be paid less. It's not really part of my world anymore, because I just won't accept it.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • World
  • Long
  • Why

• Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

  

  Dan Payne
  • Experience
  • Photography
  • Cathartic