Dan Payne Quotes

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

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• 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

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• 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

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• 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

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Saturday

• I was very keen on squash. My father used to go to sleep in the afternoon. Normally, in Pakistan, everybody goes to sleep in the afternoon, because it's really hot. I'd go and play without telling anybody.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Father
  • Sleep

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

  

  Dan Payne
  • Experience
  • Photography
  • Cathartic