David Denman Quotes
For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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I have no guitar technique.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
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The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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I want you to read the true system of the heart, drafted by a decent man and published under another name. I do not want you to be biased against good and useful books merely because a man unworthy of reading them has the audacity to call himself the Author.
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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
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Days are long when you're filming, so I catch up on sleep during breaks to avoid looking tired.
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The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.
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There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.
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For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.
