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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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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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 still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.
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I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence?
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
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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.
