Brad Stevens Quotes
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else-cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments-as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time.
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When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
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Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
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Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
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In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
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I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!
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Island of Hispaniola once so populous having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
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This time of year is tough. We would be getting ready for the season.
