Dan Byrd Quotes
I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
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I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
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For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.
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As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
