Brad Blanton Quotes
Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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The show has become my therapy.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.
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Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.
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Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
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Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
