Terry Brooks Quotes
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
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I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.
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Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.
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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
