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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I'll watch a kung fu movie for kicks, no pun intended, but I'd prefer to watch other movies besides dubbed kung fu things, but they're funny.
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Within every word there is the unhealable wound of language.
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Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
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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.
