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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When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan.
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Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.
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The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
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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.
