Walter Brennan Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
