Jonathan Brandis Quotes
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
