Billy Bragg Quotes
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.
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I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
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In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
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I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.
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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
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I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
