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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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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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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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.
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Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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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.
