Merle Dandridge Quotes
I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I don't fear anything now.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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Repeating is harder than anything else.
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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
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There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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I'd do anything to help veterans.
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Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.
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I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.
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I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
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I was taunted because I was different.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time, TV was a very different medium.
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I love a burger and fries, but it's not what I crave. I love to eat healthily.
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What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.'
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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
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The future is here.
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I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.
