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 think a superhero would be awesome to play.
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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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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
