Daniel Wallace Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.
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It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.
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There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
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He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.
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Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don’t if you don’t want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty.
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You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.
