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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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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I think I'm the most private out of my family.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.
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What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.
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When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
