Georg Brandes Quotes
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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When I was 20, my husband at the time looked at me said, 'You're fat; go run.' There weren't a lot of tools at the end of the '70s to lose weight. It took me a while to realize what kind of exercise would make me happy and I would look forward to doing. And running became it.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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I try to block a couple of hours of unscheduled time every day so that I can work on the day's most important projects.
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Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
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I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
