Dan Wells Quotes
If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
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When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
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I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.
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Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.
