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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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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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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It's so hard not to smile.
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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
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The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.