David Bryan Quotes
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.
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Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
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Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
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Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.
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I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
