Brett Dennen Quotes

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Private

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Forget

• I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Influence
  • Writers
  • Reader

• I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Look
  • New York
  • Living

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Women
  • Pretty

• Men are visual creatures.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Men
  • Creatures
  • Visual

• When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Cancer
  • Price
  • Move

• I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Work
  • Book
  • Night

• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Artist
  • Fact
  • Performer

• If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Way
  • Happens

• There isn't a clear-cut way to be a parent. We will all make mistakes.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • Way
  • Mistakes

• Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Way
  • Believing
  • Illusions