Johanna Braddy Quotes
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.
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I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
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I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!
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Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
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Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.
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I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.
