Berton Braley Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody until you've gotten into a good fight, and I think that's the situation with Superman and Batman.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together is invaluable.
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
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You can't be sensitive, ... and play baseball.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.
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The future belongs to him that does and dares.
