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 feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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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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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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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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Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
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Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
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There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.
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I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
