H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
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I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
