Dennis Lehane Quotes
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.
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The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.
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It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.
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It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
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I've always done drama, but I suppose 'Tyrannosaur' was a bit of a watershed moment for me. It was like when Kathy Burke did 'Nil By Mouth' - suddenly, people were saying, 'Oh, she can do that, too.'
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The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
