Brandon Stanton Quotes
If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
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'Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?' asked Shimrod. 'Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.'
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on.
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The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.
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I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
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I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
