Jonathan Brown Quotes
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
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I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.
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I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.
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Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone
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For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.
