Dan Uggla Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
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'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
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I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
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When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.
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A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.
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We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
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When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
