Dan Colen Quotes
I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
