Jonathan Brandis Quotes
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that - and in turn, they also want that same type of success.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.
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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.
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And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
