Josh Brolin (Josh James Brolin) Quotes
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with 'Beat'… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the 'avatar' of all this.
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The blue guitar And I are one.
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What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
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I am Providence.
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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
