Jeremy Denk Quotes

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

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• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Desert

• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Grateful

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Famous

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Angry

• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Rose

• My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Parents
  • Education

• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Brilliant

• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Talking
  • Head
  • Intellectual

• I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Ideology
  • Speaking
  • Policies

• You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Important
  • May
  • Character

• As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Long
  • Silence

• As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

  

  Ann Brashares
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

  

  Jill Sobule
  • Good

• I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • Smart

• I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

  

  Jeremy Denk
  • Different
  • Crazy