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 United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.
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Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
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It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
