Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I want the single player experience.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.
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Sometimes I want to be a normal kid and go to the beach, but it's so motivating to think about going to the Olympics again. I'll only be 22 years old after Rio, and I can do whatever I want.
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You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
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I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.
