Walter Brueggemann Quotes
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
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I really want my music to go mainstream.
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We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
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Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.
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It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.
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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
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Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
