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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From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.
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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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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.
