Dan Scanlon Quotes
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
