Brenda Novak Quotes
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
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I do not think homosexuality is immoral.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
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if one couldn’t be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.
