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.”
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.
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I had wanted to make this film Suffragette for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
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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.”
