J. Carter Brown Quotes
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
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I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.
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An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.
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The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
