Dan Povenmire Quotes
I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
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I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.
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People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.
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The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
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The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
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When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.
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I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.
