Brian Jordan Quotes
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.
