Dennis Flanagan Quotes
We liked the title for itself, and although the magazine was then in sad shape, it had seen great days and would give us a ready-made history.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
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I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.
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It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood, so obviously it would be great to work there, but there's some great stuff coming out of Britain, so I'm going to see what comes from all angles.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.
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We liked the title for itself, and although the magazine was then in sad shape, it had seen great days and would give us a ready-made history.
