Brad Feld Quotes
I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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I've said no to shows that have been on the air for six years because they weren't what I wanted to do.
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I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.
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I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
