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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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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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 ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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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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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
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There's some of me in all my characters.
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Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.
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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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I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
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How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?
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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
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There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.
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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.
