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.

Daniel Mason

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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!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• 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.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Against

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• '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.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Study
  • Philosophy
  • Buddhist

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Know
  • Scary

• 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.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Guy
  • Mom

• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Rest
  • Authority
  • Analysis

• 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.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Library

• I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Wall

• My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• There's some of me in all my characters.

  

  Jenny Han

• 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.

  

  Darren L Johnson
  • World
  • Respect
  • Goals

• 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.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Travel
  • Service

• I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Freedom

• We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds.

  

  Rebecca Lobo
  • Game
  • Role
  • Dribble

• Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Important
  • High
  • Water

• While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

  

  Daniel Mason
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Emotional