Wayne Brady Quotes
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I love books.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I knew if I worked hard enough that I'd be successful and eventually give opportunities to others.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
