H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
