Dan Brown Quotes
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Talent is very hot.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Crooks are early adopters.
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If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.
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You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
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My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
