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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The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.
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I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.
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Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.
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The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.
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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.
