Danny Carey (Daniel Edwin Carey) Quotes
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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I never really thought it out. I just woke up one day, and I was involved in all these projects. They just seemed to involve animals.
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I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.
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I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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You are of all my friends the one who illustrates pragmatism in its most needful forms. You are a jewel of pragmatism.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
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Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.
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When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the time I was in college, I realized I couldn't draw well enough.
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Anybody who digs your art, you what to share it with.
