Brad Pitt Quotes
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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The shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night.
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As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.
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Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.
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I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.
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Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.
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Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
