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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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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You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
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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.
