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'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.
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It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
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The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.
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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.
