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 play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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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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Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.
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Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
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They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
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I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.
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As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.
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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.
