Blaine Hogan Quotes
In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.
Quotes to Explore
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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I don't calculate my net worth.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.
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Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
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I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
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I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.
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I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.
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In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.
