Joe Dempsie Quotes
I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.
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The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that's what I will say is important about the genre.
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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
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Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
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Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!
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I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.
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I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.
