Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Monster
  • Supernatural

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Die

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Thought

• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Hand
  • Best
  • Look

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Journey

• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Future
  • Past
  • Taken

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Time
  • Family
  • Elephant

• We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

  

  DeForest Soaries

• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Support
  • Worry