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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I don't work for the commercial success of the film. I work to satisfy my producers who give me the money. I work to satisfy the director who has written a script for me. Of course, I have to satisfy the actor in me, but I want to satisfy them first.
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It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
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The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.
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I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.
