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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
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The most important thing for me is to continue to impact people through my work.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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On a perfect weekend, I'll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I'll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.
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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.
