Dennis Brown Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
-
I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
-
I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
-
You mustn't upstage the bride.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
-
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
-
I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
-
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
-
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
-
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
-
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
-
I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
-
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
-
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
-
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
-
Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
-
Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
-
I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.
-
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
-
There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
-
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
