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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There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
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Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.
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American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.
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Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
