William Broyles, Jr. Quotes

What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?

William Broyles, Jr.

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• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Lose
  • Step
  • First Step

• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Roses
  • Soup

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• 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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Family
  • Age
  • Heritage

• 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.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Week

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Player
  • Guitar
  • Saying

• Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Me
  • Training
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Wife

• When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Road

• I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Live
  • Weird
  • Ranch

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• I believe that women should be treated just like men.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Trying
  • Effort
  • Limits

• I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Know

• I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Done

• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.

  

  Jeff Coffin Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Unique

• I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

  

  Michael Cunningham
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?

  

  William Broyles, Jr.
  • Unique
  • Possibility
  • Irreplaceable