Jonathan Brownlee Quotes
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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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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Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.
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It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.
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I get up at 6:17 in the morning. I've timed it perfectly.
