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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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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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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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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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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I just wanna be a good artist.
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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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The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
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I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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If this just degenerates after a historic election, back into the usual bologna of politics in Washington and pettiness in Washington, then the American people I believe will move towards a third party in a massive way.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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It is the good who do not sleep.
