Donald Bren Quotes
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.
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You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.
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It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
