Brad Dourif Quotes

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Work
  • Like
  • Show

• 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.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Style
  • Best
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Popular

• 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.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Great
  • City
  • Commitment

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Package

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Ground
  • Cohesion

• 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.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Know
  • Perfect
  • Emotions

• I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Good
  • Space
  • Water

• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Power
  • Successful
  • Ignore

• I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.

  

  Chris Doubek
  • Words
  • Action

• I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

  

  Brad Dourif