Dat Phan Quotes
I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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I just can't help but see things differently.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
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It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
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Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.
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I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
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I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive.
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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
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I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.
