Douglas Brunt Quotes
The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.
Quotes to Explore
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
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I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.
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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
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The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.
