Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
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I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.
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I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.
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Little soldier, little insectYou know war it has no heartIt will kill you in the sunshineOr happily in the the darkWhere kindness is a card gameOr a bent up cigaretteIn the trenches, in the hard rainWith a bullet and a bet.
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It's good to be anywhere.
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There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.
