Brad Tavares Quotes
When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
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If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
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I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick.
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People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.
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In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
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It's a lack of respect for the community when you're not willing to debate because it's the 'wrong' network.
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I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
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My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.
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Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.
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I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I started getting more energy and wasn't so tired, then I would hit the gym.
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.
