H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.
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If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
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People say, 'Why would you go get the free agents? Well, look at the guys we wouldn't have on our football team.
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I don't agree with that decision because I don't think by Saturday we will have a new (Palestinian) government.
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If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?
