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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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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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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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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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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All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men; nay, it is vain to expect that strength of natural affection which would make them good wives and mothers. Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish.
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It is the good who do not sleep.
