Brad Renfro Quotes

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

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• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• And that's the way it is.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • War
  • Organization

• Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Single
  • Data

• We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Growth

• I haven't had an orthodox career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Had
  • Orthodox

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Look
  • Own

• I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Time
  • Music
  • Broken

• It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Going
  • Apple

• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Country
  • Man

• Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• 'Tis not for Spring to think on allThe sear and waste of Autumn's fall: -

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Autumn

• My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Singing

• I started a list of all my friends who had died of AIDS, and I stopped at 78. I think about things like that, and I'm just real glad to be here.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • Real
  • Friends

• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Painting

• It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Good

• Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

  

  Nick Joaquín
  • Moment
  • Identity
  • Flesh

• Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

  

  Brad Renfro