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Dan Scanlon Quotes

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1976

Topics

Door Story Help You Go Out

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

Funny Voice Tools Camera You Acting

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Art Poetry Think Way Size See

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Knowledge Ignorance Man Step First

I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow.

Trombone Shorty

Generation Grow Follow Something

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Sky Words Moon You Choice Say

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

Name Bad Because Get Bleak Lot

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

Love Prove First Hard Master Would

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Life My Life Play Know Chess Ya

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

Family Dog People Crazy Think Grow

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

People Gossip Know Storytelling Whom

I'm a cowboy and an Indian.

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

Truth Believe Thinking Picture Kind

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