Donald Fagen Quotes
I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
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I loved 'Dumbo.' I watched Bugs Bunny time and again. The Muppets were big, too. All of those, they have this real, not darkness but poignancy, that's what makes it stick with you.
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
