Dennis Allen Quotes

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

Dennis Allen

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• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Parents
  • Small

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Writing
  • Guy

• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Me
  • Marriage

• People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Growing
  • Poetry
  • Wall

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • Always
  • Film
  • Photography

• The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

  

  Lactantius
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Spirit

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• I love children.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Children
  • Love
  • I Love

• Lighten your palette his remark to Cézanne circa 1873, to encourage Cézanne to use bright colors, paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.

  

  Camille Pissarro

• Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Amazing
  • Beer

• I like myself still kind of being... because DJs used to be the background guy - the guy who was just doing the music - I see myself more as that guy than being on the stage.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • Guy

• Sometimes you never realise how much of an effect you're having on people until you're told, and the fan mail I receive has made me very aware of the positive effects I have on other people.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • People
  • Positive

• As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • School
  • High
  • Education

• One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

  

  V. Vale Blue Cheer
  • Environment
  • Moral
  • Needs

• Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Environment
  • Painting
  • Red

• Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

  

  Dennis Allen
  • Environment
  • Prisoner
  • Heredity