Christopher Denham Quotes
I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I don't want to get fat.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Where I fit in is confusing to me.
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.
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Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
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I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.
