Brandon Thomas Quotes
If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.
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You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.
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I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.
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If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.
