John Mason Brown Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
