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Daniel Mallory Ortberg Quotes

Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 28, 1986

Topics

Amazing Me Writing Look Top Over

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

Feel You Important Living Breathing

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

Relationship Best People World You

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Business Negative Others Check Four

I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offended.' They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.

Creative People Finding Feelings New

Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.

Michelle Dockery

Time Me Limits End Loved Measure

My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again.

Johnny Knoxville

Myself Parents Me Back Said Out

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

Life Love Age Time Experience Death

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

Die Said Never First Hard Ground

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

Work World Want Just Part Elemental

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

Me Book You Trouble Principal First

I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.

I Am Child College Immigrants Actor

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

Story You Go Well Form Storytellers

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