Andrew Denton Quotes
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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The way you become divine is to become wholly human.
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I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
