Meredith Brooks Quotes
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.
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Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
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Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
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I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
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Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
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People want an easy sound bite.
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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
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I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.
