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.
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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.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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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.
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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.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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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.
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
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I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
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As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
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I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
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It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
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When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
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For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
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My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.
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Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
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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.
