Brett Dennen Quotes
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
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A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.
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The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.
