Jeffrey Brown Quotes
Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I have a great office.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
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Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
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Being different makes you beautiful.
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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
