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.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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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.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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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!
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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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.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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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.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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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.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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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.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
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I love 'Troy.' I love Brad Pitt's character - when he went to Troy, he just ran over it. Then this particular scene where they made this big old horse or something out of wood, and they hid inside the wood.
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I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
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I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
