Dani Shapiro Quotes
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform - uncontrollable fear.
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I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out.
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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
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I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.
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I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
