Brittany Howard Quotes
A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life.
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We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
