Douglas Brunt Quotes
Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
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If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart.......shuts down... And your words die.
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I think of writing now as a long, tiring, pleasant seduction. The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you spend so much of your life sitting at a table tapping away, filling pages.
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I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
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Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
