Dennis Moore Quotes
I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
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Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.
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You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.
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I hope to spend more time with my family.
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Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.
