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'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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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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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.
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I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel.
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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.
