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JORDAN LADD I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybod...
PETER CAPALDI When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instru...
SPIKE LEE We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way ...
JACK WHITE I went to school in Long Beach, and all the seniors I used to kick it with called me Pac.
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ANDY WARREN I try to write characters that are normal, believable people with a unique sense of humor. I like ch...
TAYLOR FENNER I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given t...
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ADAM PALLY I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he o...
ORHAN PAMUK Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art s...
DAVE GIBBONS I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started makin...
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others....
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GARY F EVANS... I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
MARCEL DUCHAMP My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high sch...
MAIRA KALMAN I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that ha...
ALEXA VEGA I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
JACKIE DESHANNON The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doe...
WINNIE HOLZMAN All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I als...
DONALD BYRD I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was...
EDEN SHER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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GREG MCELROY I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab...
LOU REED I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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DENNIS ERLICH When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a fil...
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GREG BERLANTI Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
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KAREN SCOTT The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
BOB DYLAN I wanted to make him (Daniel) proud and the university proud. I went home feeling like we accomplish...
JUDI HENSLEY I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
CHASKE SPENCER I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.
AMBER TAMBLYN Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was th...
STACEY FARBER I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t...
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DANE COOK I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.
JANINA GAVANKAR I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for e...
BILL GRIFFITH It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clari...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about w...
LANA DEL REY Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY These are not people you might associate with firearms ownership or competition. We have a lot of di...
ALAN DEAL I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
ARSENE WENGER I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in th...
RICHARD WAGNER I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life...
HALSTON SAGE My goal was not to blame but to acknowledge, remember and renew. Activism in art has a negative conn...
WILL SNYDER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.
HUGH LAURIE First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality ...
JACK S. WILLIS Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
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CHELSEA PERETTI All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the char...
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WAYNE WONDER So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
TED NELSON You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hat...
JEFF MELVOIN I think the schools in a small town give you attention you need. A lot of my kids teachers are peopl...
CAROL TAYLOR All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in realit...
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AARON RUELL The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know t...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose...
CLIVE BELL The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ...
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BARBARA BROCCOLI Daniel is a superb actor who has all the qualities needed to bring a contemporary edge to the role, ...
MARTIN CAMPBELL My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiot...
SAM HARRIS I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.
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DANIEL CLOWES Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.
DANIEL CLOWES Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
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DANIEL CLOWES I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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DANIEL CLOWES I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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DANIEL CLOWES I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
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SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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DANIEL WEBSTER While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and...
DANIEL WEBSTER The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws ...
DANIEL WEBSTER The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the n...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally...
DANIEL WEBSTER He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
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DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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DANIEL WEBSTER Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enr...
DANIEL WEBSTER We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
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DANIEL GILLIES Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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DANIEL GILBERT If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
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DANIEL GILBERT We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
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DANIEL GILBERT The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch...
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DANIEL EVERETT As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec...
DANIEL EVERETT Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
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DANIEL EVERETT I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
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DANIEL EVERETT Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
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DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
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