Blake Farenthold Quotes
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Midi is my hobby.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
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Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.
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I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.
