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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All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
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We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.
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Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.
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I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.
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I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
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I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.
