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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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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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
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Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
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For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I realized I could work for a manufacturer or a hospital, or I could work for a company that enables the manufacturer, the hospital, and everything else.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
