Brent Weeks Quotes
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
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Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.
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I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.
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I hate Spanx.
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Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.
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It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.
