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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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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We don't follow trends; I don't think we even set trends. We just do our own thing. We just do what we love. That's why Arch Enemy sounds like that.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.
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I tend to like dry humor.
