Dennis Lehane Quotes
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
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The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.
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I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
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I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum.
