Dennis Lehane Quotes

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
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• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Chaos

• I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
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• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

  Kate Chopin
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• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Small

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Love
  • Friendship

• We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Breathe

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• It's a beautiful thing how happy you can be with a few friends, some beaten up guitars, a fire, and a couple of fields.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Happy

• I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

  

  Chris LeDoux
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  • Guy
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• I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective.

  

  Cutter Hodierne
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

  

  Dennis Lehane
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