Brendan Sexton III Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
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There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.
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Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
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My new years resolution? I will be less laz.
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I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.
