Brad Thor Quotes
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
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We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
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I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.
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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.
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The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
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Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
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I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
