Dan Wilson (Daniel Dodd Wilson) Quotes
Lyric writing is the hardest part. It requires some life to have been lived. You can't write a great song every day for the rest of your life, because you need to have life in between the songs. You have to have the drama and the thrills and the sadness in real time so that it informs your heart later.

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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.
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Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Lyric writing is the hardest part. It requires some life to have been lived. You can't write a great song every day for the rest of your life, because you need to have life in between the songs. You have to have the drama and the thrills and the sadness in real time so that it informs your heart later.