Daniel Rossen Quotes
I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
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I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
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We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'
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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.
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After sitting for two to three hours at a stretch, my feet just swell up. So I try to walk as much as I can.
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The levelling of inflexion and of wordplay became part of the program of applied knowledge in the seventeenth century. (p. 265)
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I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
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I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.
