David Bromstad Quotes
Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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I am a contrarian.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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My goal is to get quieter as I get older.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
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I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
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Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.
