Kent Brantly Quotes
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
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My objective is to be among the best.
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I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.
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The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.
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The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
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I've thought a lot about the moment when I was infected with Ebola.
