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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Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
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To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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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.
