Blair Brown Quotes
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I'm kind of fascinated by Paula Deen. I've been to her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah. My friend was studying in the area, and we ate at her restaurant, and it was right at the cusp where Paula Deen became Paula Deen.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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I seriously wished-selfish as it may appear-that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.
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There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.
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Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
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My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way.
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.
