Denny Dent Quotes

It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!

Denny Dent

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• Artist
• Creative
• Whatever

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• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Between

• I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Really
  • Longer

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Value

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Brain

• In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • World
  • Culture
  • Artistry

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Religion

• It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Soul
  • Place
  • Hardware

• They call it Armageddon, the end of freedom as we know it. After I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling, some cracks opening up in the earth. Turned out it was a nice day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Freedom

• Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

  

  Laurence Fishburne

• I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Travel

• I've had empathy toward what Carson McCullers calls "the invisible people" all my life and was inherently interested in what redeemed Mancil Travis, what fueled Mancil, what destroyed Mancil, etc. I think everyone wants redemption including Mancil.

  

  Will Kimbrough
  • People
  • Empathy
  • Invisible

• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Die

• It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Eyes

• It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!

  

  Denny Dent
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Artist