Denis Leary Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
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You want to feel, 'I know that character.'
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
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Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.
