Brianna Hildebrand Quotes

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

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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.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• 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.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Decisions
  • Comfortable
  • Closet

• Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Ups And Downs
  • Ups

• 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.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• 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.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Decisions

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

  

  Adam Green
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I am happy with what I've done.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Happy

• The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Greed
  • Depend
  • Gravity

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Piano

• There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

  

  Feist
  • Together
  • You
  • Better

• I've been a Madden guy since I was little.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Been
  • Little

• Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

  

  Jason Lee
  • People
  • Job
  • Famous

• Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • History
  • Silence
  • Itself

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

  

  David Horsey
  • Long
  • Political

• She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • She
  • Power
  • Bad

• I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

  

  Brianna Hildebrand