Brittany Howard Quotes
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.
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We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
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When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.
