Brittany Howard Quotes
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
Quotes to Explore
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
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Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
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Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
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Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
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I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
