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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It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
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I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
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...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.
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I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.
