Brett Dennen Quotes
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
Quotes to Explore
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
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Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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There isn’t time-so brief is life-for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving-and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.
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One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.
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I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
