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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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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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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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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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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People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
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I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.
