Nicholas Braun (Nicholas Joseph Braun) Quotes

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

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• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Never
  • Secret
  • Tax

• I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Surround Yourself

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Choice
  • Grace

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Day
  • Roots

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • You
  • Things
  • Agree

• Tech never comes back the same.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Like
  • Color
  • Weakness

• The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Enlightenment

• I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Accept
  • Mediocrity

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Loudest

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Man
  • Play
  • Television

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• I feel like I understand Trump's character better than the average person now, having seen all of these little interactions with charity. I wanted to keep doing something that's like that, and not just doing pure politics. So my piece of the Trump empire is the golf courses, Mar-a-Lago, and the winery.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Character
  • Trump
  • Golf

• I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Great
  • Different
  • Character

• To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.

  

  Stephen Henderson
  • Play
  • Film
  • Written

• I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

  

  Nicholas Braun
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  • Year