David Josiah Brewer Quotes
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
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It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.
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There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
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Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.
