Dan Colen Quotes
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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There is no one true church.
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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
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I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
