David Bryan Quotes
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.
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I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.
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We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
