Dan Povenmire Quotes
I had horrible moment at the end of a very successful day, where I realized I just felt nothing about it and I didn't care. And I had that fear that I would, because I was successful at it, that I would be there 20, 30 years down the road, doing this job and just not caring about what I did.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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Cricket is my first love.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
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Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
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Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.
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People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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I had horrible moment at the end of a very successful day, where I realized I just felt nothing about it and I didn't care. And I had that fear that I would, because I was successful at it, that I would be there 20, 30 years down the road, doing this job and just not caring about what I did.
