Dan Hicks Quotes
I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
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If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
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If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
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I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
