Eddie Dean Quotes
Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.
Quotes to Explore
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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I've always admired people who are over-prepared. In college, I had a classmate named Norman Meyrowitz. One day he was giving a presentation on an overhead projector' and the bulb subsequently went out. The class thought the presentation was over. 'It's okay,' Norm announced . . . and he went to his backpack and grabbed an extra bulb he brought with him.
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When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
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Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.
