Dennis Edwards Quotes
I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
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I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
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I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.
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You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
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I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
