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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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
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There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.
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It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’
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I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.
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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.
