Dennis Edwards Quotes
When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.
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Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
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I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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Aretha Franklin does not like me.
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Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…
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I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
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Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.
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I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
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Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.
