Brad Blanton Quotes
“Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.
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The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
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“Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”
