Brande Roderick Quotes
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.
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Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
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Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
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What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
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Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
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What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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I met my best friend in a sandbox when I was three, and he would grow up to be gay and loved to dress in my clothing any chance he got.
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The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.
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I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
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Being number two sucks.
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I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.
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I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.
