Dan Santat Quotes
Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
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We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
