Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes
Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.
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There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
