Brooke Nevin Quotes
With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that's just not in me.
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One of the historical vulnerabilities of literature, as a subject for study, is that it has never seemed difficult enough. This may come as news to the buckled figure of the book reviewer, but it's true. Hence the various attempts to elevate it, complicate it, systematize it. Interacting with literature is easy.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.
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With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.
