Bryan Cranston Quotes
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'
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Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.
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Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
