Blake Farenthold Quotes
As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
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Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
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It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Comprehension follows perception.
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In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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I thought "Summer Sisters" would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
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As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
