Dan Savage Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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We learn to beat fear by doing.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
