Donald Bren Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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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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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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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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My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
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Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did.
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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
