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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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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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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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
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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.
