Dan Jenkins Quotes
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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Not my idea of God, but God.
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You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
