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Dan Smith Quotes

I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?

Dan Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: July 14, 1986

Topics

People Think Trying Way Band Tell

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Book Story Thought Something Even

I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.

John Mellencamp

Music Time Art Money New York Me

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Light Dark Person Shades Exploring

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Train New Run Railway Engine Would

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Knowledge Great Sin Difference Deal

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.

Josie Maran

Shadow Eye Makeup Nice Hand Artists

One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that's willing to accept them back after they leave the work force to raise children without taking a cut in compensation and responsibility.

Diane Garnick

Work Women Children Responsibility

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

Change Adjust Force Things Greatest

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

Douglas Brinkley

Death People Woods Loved Some People

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Apollonius of Tyana

Man True Noble Error Part His

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.

Anthony McCarten

Impossible You Living Tell Arts

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Allan Sloan

Good Alone Style People Information