Daniel Wallace Quotes
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.
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Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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Satin rays and coloured daysStark blue horizonsNaked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoonsVoicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bringPussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
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Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
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You can work through most things and come out on the other side feeling like you've learned a good lesson and you'll get better.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
