Dennis Crowley Quotes
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
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They shut down kids' homes, for a number of reasons, and I was part of that transition into foster care. That's all well and good if it's populated by people who feel their work is paid decently and supported.
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Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
