Danny Wallace Quotes

#1. I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

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#2. Hello?' said the taxi driver, and I realized that it's all very well having an internal monologue, but it does tend to leave the other person a bit stranded, conversationally.

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#3. The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.

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#4. And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.

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#5. But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

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#6. The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

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#7. It was 8am. My phone was ringing. What kind of society do we live in where someone can make your phone ring at 8am? There should be rules.

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#8. Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

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#9. Yeah, she must work round here. Lot of high class escorts i. this area. And traffic wardens, too. She's probably one or the other.

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#10. I just think - '
'Don't think. If you think, you'll never truly get over her. Thinking just extends things.'
So I decided not to think.

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#11. I didn't know how to feel. I'd been rebuffed. I hadn't even been trying to buff.

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#12. Hello?'
'Mum?'
'Yes! Who's that?.'
'Your only son.'
A pause.
'Daniel?'
To be fair, I'd only given her one clue.

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#13. I recommend keeping a diary. Diaries are cool.

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#14. It's just a bit annoying when a man you've only just met thinks you're planning to assassinate a world leader. It puts a downer on your whole day. You start wondering who else people think you're secretly planning to kill.

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#15. I try to find where the fun is and go there and then get asked if I want to have more fun. That's the way I want my life to go. Follow the fun.

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#16. If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

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#17. I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

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#18. A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

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#19. The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

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#20. The words 'mainly in America' translated to me as 'this is bollocks' and I sat back in my chair with a sigh.

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#21. It appears your son was 85 percent curry!

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#22. The golden hour
that hour of sunshine where the world looks the way it looks in your dreams.

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#23. Yeah, but if you r heart isn't in it, you need to be where your heart is.

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#24. The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

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#25. I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

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#26. This is best thing about being manly: it's so easy to fake. Smear some oil on your face, or nod and say "Aaah" near mechanics.

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#27. We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.

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#28. Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

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#29. I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that.

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#30. Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

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#31. I lay, shamefaced and embarrassed, in my bed. Which is a deeply unusual place for me to feel shamefaced and embarrassed, and anyone who says otherwise is a bloody liar.

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#32. And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

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#33. But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

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#34. You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit.

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#35. Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

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#36. I grabbed my coat. We were off.
Well, I grabbed my coat, waited the best part of an hour for Hanne to choose between one pair of black trousers and another virtually identical pair, had a cup of tea, approved the trousers, and then we were off.

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#37. What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

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#38. Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

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#39. I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my plan.

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#40. The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

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#41. I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

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#42. Because the one thing I hate about hope - the one thing I despise about it, that no one ever seems to admit about it- is that suddenly having hope is the easiest route to sudden hopelessness there is.

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#43. Maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.

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#44. Sometimes I look at myself and think, Is this it?, and then I think, Yes, it is. This is literally the best you will ever look. Tomorrow, you will look just a little bit worse, and this is how it will go, for ever.

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#45. Because isn't to be pursued, to be thought of as special, to be needed by someone somewhere, whether we know them yet or not, all any of us actually want?

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#46. I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

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