Brett Davern Quotes
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.
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But you know he'll always keep movin';You know he's never gonna stop movin.Cus he's rollin',He's the rollin' stone.And when you wake up it's a new mornin'.The sun is shinin' it's a new morning.You're goin',You're goin' home.
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I like having the space of my own project.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.
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I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.
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In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
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I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
