Daniel Simon Quotes
The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault."
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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I'm an entrepreneur.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
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He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.
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I think he has a level of confidence that gives him the understanding of what he can and can't do in this game. I think he's playing within the groundwork of what he's capable of doing, which is really important.
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I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story.
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
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I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.
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When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.
