Brianna Hildebrand Quotes
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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I am happy with what I've done.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
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The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
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If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
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If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.
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The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
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In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.
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I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!
