Brian J. White Quotes
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
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We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.
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This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.
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My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to write from an abstract idea, no matter how interesting or compelling I feel the idea might be.
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When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
