Dan Byrd Quotes
I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.Dan Byrd
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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.
Barbra Streisand -
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.
Cal Hubbard -
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
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.
Quentin Crisp -
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
Octavia E. Butler -
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Ram Kapoor -
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.
Walter Kirn -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
Lady Gaga -
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley -
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
Gary McCord
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
Kate Smith -
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.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
Sam J. Jones -
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
Mae Jemison -
Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.'
Caitlin Moran
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When you are alone, you need to take many decisions, and you can make mistakes.
Christian Cota -
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
Christopher Buckley -
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy -
I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
Paul Putner -
When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
Jo Stafford -
I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
Dan Byrd