Danny Harris Quotes

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

Danny Harris

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• I really love storytelling.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Love
  • Really
  • Storytelling

• All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Storytelling

• The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Point
  • Storytelling
  • Urban

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • First
  • Wait
  • Second

• Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Great
  • Tragedy
  • Storytelling

• Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Imagination

• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Think
  • Storytelling
  • Cosmic

• They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Young

• It is no mean feat to come second to a player like that. It's not easy for me to say something like that.

  

  Ian Wright
  • Player
  • Second
  • Feat

• I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Perfect
  • Profession
  • Idiots

• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Learned
  • Conversation
  • Profession

• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Profession

• Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

  

  Charles Laughton
  • Profession
  • Complete
  • Attempt

• I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Advice

• Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Computer
  • Labor
  • Profession

• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Acting
  • Profession

• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • Customer

• When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

  

  Erica Brown
  • Writing
  • Worth
  • Ourselves

• Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

  

  Sophocles
  • Father
  • Child
  • Respects

• Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

  

  Danny Harris
  • Profession
  • Storytelling
  • Second