Brad Leland Quotes
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
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That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
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I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
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My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
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Television, when you're on the show, it becomes a big, happy family.
