Brad Feld Quotes
I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I grew up on films.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I do not like violence.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.
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Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
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We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
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Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
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Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
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I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
