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.
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.
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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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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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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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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
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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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Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
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The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
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I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
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The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
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Nothing makes a girl feel as unsexy as divorce.
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Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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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.
