Daniel Wallace Quotes
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
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Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?
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One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
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Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.
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I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
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When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.
