Dennis Lehane Quotes
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.
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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
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When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
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I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
