Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. Dan Harmon More Quotes by Dan Harmon More Quotes From Dan Harmon None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. Dan Harmon forgiveness hurt running Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do. Dan Harmon littles world needs Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you. Dan Harmon rooftops voice people The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too. Dan Harmon teeth real dream There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up. Dan Harmon humanity hurt people Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead. Dan Harmon pressure life-is perfect I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose. Dan Harmon use writing trying You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story Dan Harmon ships stories looks There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one. Dan Harmon war two thinking Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever. Dan Harmon hilarious lonely I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories. Dan Harmon generations stories thinking All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive. Dan Harmon tv-shows watches two Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. Dan Harmon hate doe writing I have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as "the customer" in entertainment. I would never, ever, ever put myself above them and say, "They don't get it, but it's funny, believe me." If they're not laughing, I'm doing my job wrong. Dan Harmon believe-in-me laughing believe I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy. Dan Harmon skulls people thinking Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas. Dan Harmon ego people ideas Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day. Dan Harmon wake-up the-end-of-the-day morning What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work. Dan Harmon passion laughing people There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job. Dan Harmon genius writing jobs I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy. Dan Harmon individual feelings people
