Dave Genn Quotes
What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
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Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene.
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We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.
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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
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Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!
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What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
