Brad Leithauser Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
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On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.
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We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.
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We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
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Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.
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It is the good who do not sleep.
