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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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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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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They never fail who dieIn a great cause.
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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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If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
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Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
