Bryan Clay Quotes
I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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A lot of people would like to see me in England. This is not necessarily the league that attracts me the most, though. It would allow me to develop further, though.
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All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.
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The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
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If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.
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I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.
