H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.
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I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
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When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
