Dan Fouts Quotes
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
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I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage their suicidal thoughts and self-destructive behaviors, rather than on understanding the possible causes of their despair and helplessness. I was also struck by how little attention was paid to their accomplishments and aspirations; whom they cared for, loved, or hated; what motivated and engaged them, what kept them stuck, and what made them feel at peace—the ecology of their lives.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
