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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Nort... DAN CHAON I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three diffe... DAN CHAON I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also i... DAN CHAON A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Wh... DAN CHAON The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids. DAN CHAON For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which do... DAN CHAON People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' new... DAN CHAON Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life.... DAN CHAON I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stu... DAN CHAON I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. DAN CHAON Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabri... DAN CHAON The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family... DAN CHAON Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more t... DAN CHAON Hesitantly, I touched the stump where my finger used to be. In my mind, something almost remembered ... DAN CHAON Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that s... DAN CHAON There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, an... DAN CHAON Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections... DAN CHAON I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed real... 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Here is the yard, and a set of... DAN CHAON We did a pretty good job of playing to our potential, you could say. ERIC CHAON We led at the end of the first half (34-28), but we hadn't done anything special. We sent a message ... ERIC CHAON We got into a rhythm at the same time. ERIC CHAON Everyone stepped up. It was a great team effort, and that's what we need. ERIC CHAON DAN QUAYLE DAN GABLE I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ... DAN MARINO DAN QUAYLE DAN RATHER DAN RATHER DAN QUAYLE DAN GABLE When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ... DAN PINK I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&... DAN WHELDON My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island'... DAN SHECHTMAN DAN QUAYLE Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection. 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DAN GILROY All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ... DAN GILROY A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown. DAN GILROY I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work... DAN GILROY Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But... DAN GILROY There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'... DAN GILROY The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ... DAN GILROY The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it... DAN GILROY Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make fil... DAN GILROY I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or ... DAN GILROY I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with g... DAN GILROY A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who un... DAN GILROY In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a ... DAN GILROY The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain... DAN GILROY DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT DAN GILBERT If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should appr... DAN GERTLER Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing w... 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That cannot happen if y... DAN GELBER I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politici... DAN GELBER At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense bec... DAN GELBER DAN GABLE
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I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
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when she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the ... 
What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--... 
Celaena walked and walked, until she found herself by the tree-lined shore of a lake, glaringly brig... 
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although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ... 
She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone... 
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What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her h... 
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho... 
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. 
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. 
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you. 
I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career. 
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There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over. 
I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains. 
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life. 