Brett Dennen Quotes
I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.
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It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
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Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.
