Brett Dennen Quotes
I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
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The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.
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There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
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Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
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It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.
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I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.
