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Dennis Washington Quotes

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Dennis Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1934

Topics

Job Looking Always Up Paper Pass

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

Hate See Fail Involved Film Any

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

Good Water You Look Right Own

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

Future Me Pressure Feel You Know

If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience.

Laugh Comedy You Know Never Improv

The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

Music Art Talent Literature Pool

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

Past Never In The Past Been Made

Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

Truth Time People Career Wonder Try

The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

Music Listening Problem Way Never

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

Good Children Woman Happy Child Two

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

Weather Writing Negative You Look

France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.

Respect People Immigration Problem

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Mind Slow Talk Earned May OK

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