Brandon Thomas Quotes
Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
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I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
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Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.
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Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.
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Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.
