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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Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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.
