Brittany Howard Quotes
You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
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There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
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You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.
