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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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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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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Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Gene therapy technology is much like computing technology. We had to build the super computer which cost $8 million in 1960. Now everyone has technologies that work predictably and at a cost the average person can afford.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
