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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War is not civilized.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.
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This is your brain on magic.
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Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store!
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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Whether it's developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.
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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.
