Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Want
  • Talk

• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Start

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Age
  • Lies

• I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Road
  • New

• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Difficult
  • Horror
  • Terrified

• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Culture
  • Small
  • Support

• Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • People
  • Good
  • Dance

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Character

• One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Perfect
  • Fashion
  • Style

• The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

  

  Tertullian
  • Way
  • Earning
  • Complaint

• The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

  

  Eric Voegelin
  • History
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon