Andrew Denton Quotes
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.
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Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
