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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The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.
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No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
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Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
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Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...
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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.
