Dennis Eckersley Quotes
That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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I did write a lot of TV themes - I wrote about 45 of them, and a couple of which are still reference and popular today, like 'Diff'rent Strokes' and 'Facts of Life.' But I was a limited musician.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
