Brad Listi Quotes
I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.
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We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.
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I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
