Dan Scanlon Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
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.
Zooey Deschanel -
I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole -
Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
Olivia Culpo -
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
H. R. Giger -
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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'.
Yuna -
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester -
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
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.
Garrison Keillor -
I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
Rachel Stevens
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Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine -
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley -
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.
Jack Lemmon -
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
Tanc Sade -
I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
D. B. Sweeney -
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
Barbara Demick -
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
Tatiana Maslany -
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
Etgar Keret -
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I tend to like dry humor.
Dan Scanlon