Fawn M. Brodie Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
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Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
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The third season of the Leftovers came along and Damon Lindelof sent me the script to Episode 3, and I called him up and thanked him for one of the greatest gifts I've been given. I had that script for almost two months, in the mountains in Idaho, before I even got on a plane and flew to Australia and went to the outback. He also told me to learn about the indigenous people in Australia and learn how to play a didgeridoo. It was just great. It was probably, in many ways, the best acting experience I've ever had.
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But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
