Daniel Mason Quotes
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
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I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.
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I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.
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When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.
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There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
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There's no such thing as multitasking.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
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Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
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I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.
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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
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Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
