Brooke Smith Quotes
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
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I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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I've been blessed; I've been getting so many amazing opportunities because of the UFC. I know there are going to be haters no matter how successful I am, and I just have to be thankful for all the blessings that I have because all of it can be over before you know it.
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I play a nobody in Japan.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
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Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.
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I'm anxious about losing anonymity.
