Brenda Novak Quotes
Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Food is a big part of my life.
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I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.
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To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
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I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
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What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.
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My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
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It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.
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The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.
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Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
