Brett Dennen Quotes
When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.Brett Dennen
Quotes to Explore
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman -
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
A. James Clark -
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall -
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
Harold Prince -
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis -
Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
Gabrielle Union -
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson -
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
Bryce Dessner The National -
As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
Mary Jo White -
I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
Daniel Radcliffe -
When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.
Adelina Sotnikova -
But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.
Eric Cantor -
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Max von Sydow -
It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
Krysten Ritter -
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
Damon Hill -
Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
Kim Young-sam -
和平未到根本絕望時期,決不放棄和平,犧牲未到最後關頭,決不輕言犧牲
Chiang Kai-shek -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez -
I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
Patrick Ness -
When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.
Brett Dennen