H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
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I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
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I'd always walk my girlfriend home, i'm too protective!
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There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
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You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
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Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
