Sir Isaac Brock KB Quotes
If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
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If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.
