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The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.
Damon Dash
Saying
Myself
People
Awareness
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Those
About
Write
Had
Spoken
Like
Diabetic
Were
Been
Heard
Just
Showcase
Thing
Things
Bring
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
Damon Galgut
You
Writing
Words
Way
About
Individual
Particular
Like
Stunts
Effect
Where
Little
Create
Acting
Use
Pull
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
Damon Hill
Me
Important
Think
Way
Out
Something
Tend
Like
Learn
Spotlight
Singled
Any
Being
Which
Away
Shy
British
If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.
Damon Hill
Way
Tried
Fair
Like
Fairly
Am
Been
Manner
Things
Treated
Career
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
Damon Lindelof
Work
Day
You
Sometimes
End Of The Day
Thought
Sense
Down
Think
Way
Drawn
Out
Window
Crossword
Throw
Put
Puzzle
Feel
New
Like
Does
Real
Ambiguous
End
Times
Cracked
York
Same
Just
Rewarding
New York
Want
New York Times
Storytelling
Certain
Requires
Certain Level
Hard
Level
I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
Me
Change
People
Human Being
Personality
Try
Will
Nothing
Strangers
Say
Would
Obsess
Over
Over It
Like
Until
Human
Being
Flaw
Reasons
Even
Fatal
Need
I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
Damon Lindelof
Time
Remember
Pure
Lost
Thinking
Other
Else
About
Weeks
Like
How
Doing
Than
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Then
Really
Engage
Creatively
From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
Damon Lindelof
Me
Hate
Perspective
Three
Own
Nothing
Minute
Seeing
Entire
My Own
More
Feel
Like
Trailer
Than
Where
Movie
Internal
Shown
Middle school left some scars, as I'm sure it did for many of us. When my body started to change, I felt a bit like I was living inside a stranger. People began responding to me differently, which was confusing.
Dan Amboyer
Me
Change
People
School
Living
Bit
Responding
Inside
Some
Scars
Like
Sure
Felt
Left
Began
Did
Middle
Middle School
Which
Us
Confusing
Body
Stranger
Many
Differently
Started
I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.
Dan Amboyer
Ride
Sweet
Back
System
Mass
New
Like
Know
Am
Hand
Yorker
New Yorker
Subway
Transit
Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.
Dan Amboyer
Time
Family
Character
You
Theatre
Opportunity
Try
Become
Sense
Community
Other
Find
About
Cast
Layers
Weeks
Over
Like
Ideas
Know
Get
Process
Created
Explore
Your
Rehearsal
Actor
Nuance
Second
I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.
Dan Amboyer
Teacher
Mom
Family
Doctor
School
Administrator
More
He
School Teacher
Like
Doctor Who
Up
Michigan
Whatsoever
Jail
Artists
Where
Grew
Public
Mean
Worked
Who
Public School
Dad
Start
I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.
Dan Auerbach
Myself
Me
You
People
Nervous
Singing
Young
Kid
Out
Tried
Only
Voice
Push
Never
Had
Put
Since
Like
Know
Sing
Sort
Got
Doing
Front
Just
The Only Thing
Really
Sang
Used
Naturally
Dad
Ever
Thing
Start
Started
Starting
It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
Dan Auerbach
Success
Happy
Matter
Whatever
Other
Incurable
Would
Some
About
Like
Go
Than
Get
Disease
Going
Just
Bankrupt
Happens
Keep
Keep Going
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.
Dan Aykroyd
Home
Walk
Edge
National
Complain
Park
Through
Like
Up
Canada
National Park
Snow
Did
Six
Grew
Really
Grandparents
Your
Miles
Used
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
Dan Aykroyd
Heart
Kind
Inside
Steel
Like
Mild
Trap
Exterior
I like mac and cheese.
Dan Brown
Cheese
Mac
Like
I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
Dan Brown
Vegetables
Books
Nutrition
Write
Like
Trying
Taste
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
Dan Brown
Science
Ethics
Engineering
Our
More
Powerful
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
Like
Make
Transform
Us
Bodies
Using
Species
Things
Biological
Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
Dan Brown
Character
You
People
Writing
Decision
Tough
Every
Chaos
Solitary
Thousands
Something
Compromise
Like
Looks
Parts
Talks
How
Making
Existence
Fix
Controlled
Just
Movie
Moving
Moving Parts
Your
I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
Dan Brown
Love
Myself
Think
Books
About
Write
Like
Genre
Read
Really
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
Dan Burton
Justice
King
Lost
Same Thing
Congress
President
Approval
Percent
Guy
Rating
He
Like
Involved
Him
Does
Got
His
Dictatorial
Department
Same
Want
Happen
Justice Department
Acting
Your
Dad
Thing
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
Dan Byrd
You
People
Before
Bit
Kind
Responsibilities
Responsible
Adult
Adulthood
Head
Like
Because
Becoming
Heard
Little
Little Bit
Transitioning
Your
Paying
Bills
Sudden
Now
Actually
Early
Early 20s
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Dan Chaon
Together
Memory
Sense
Our
Ways
Kind
Fabric
Some
Construct
Self
Like
Patch
Fictions
Novel
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
Dan Colen
Spiritual
Think
Eye
See
Objects
Like
Beyond
Powers
Energies
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
Dan Deacon
Record
Write
Like
Devoid
Make
Another
Content
Escapism
Just
Want
Wanted
Meaningful
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