Brett Dennen Quotes
People walk around pushing back their debts Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
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I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
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My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.
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A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
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There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.
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People walk around pushing back their debts Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets.
