Justin Brannan (Justin Lee Brannan) Quotes
As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
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I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
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I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
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As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.
