Dan Colen Quotes
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
