Dan Scanlon Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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There is a grim and ghastly humor -- the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy -- which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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I tend to like dry humor.
