Brigham Young Quotes
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.
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Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.
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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
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When I crashed my BMW and managed to walk away pretty much unscathed, it was a turning point. I'd been living the life, and when people see photos of the car wreck, they can't believe I got away with it. It was like a fog had lifted. I stopped drinking a bottle of Tequila before grabbing my car keys. It was time to wise-up and get a haircut.
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It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
