Brad Dourif Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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I had a really typical, suburban, middle-class upbringing. The only thing out of the ordinary was being one of the few Chinese families in town.
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That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
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My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
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Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
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I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.
