Josh Brolin (Josh James Brolin) Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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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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There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
Mandy Bujold
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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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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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
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It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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If you're going to be a movie star, you should live like one.
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Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?
