William Broyles, Jr. Quotes
What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
Quotes to Explore
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.
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Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.
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Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
