Dan S. Kennedy Quotes
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I don't like controversy.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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There's no business like show business.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
