Broderick Crawford Quotes
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.
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Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.
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I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
