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 think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.
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I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
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When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
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What goes up must come down.
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You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story 3,' which isn't realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.
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When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.
