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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You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
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When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake blood is being spurted out at you for two minutes, it's incredibly fun, and you're in character for that time. You can't really believe that that's your job.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
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It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
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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.
