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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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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I'm always moving like a kid. I'm always bouncing around and never sit still.
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With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
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We're just happy, ... We wanted to win this game so bad. I've got to take my hat off to my teammates. They played big. They really picked me up tonight.
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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
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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.
