Brenda Novak Quotes

Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.

Brenda Novak

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• I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Shopping

• I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Great
  • Young
  • Great Things

• It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
  • Autobiography

• One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Water
  • Red

• Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Earth

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Suffering
  • Physical

• Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Wish
  • Like
  • I Wish

• Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Control
  • Movies
  • Television

• I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Chance
  • Motivated

• When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Me
  • Stand

• It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • People
  • Business
  • Bad

• God helps those who fear Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Love is a really scary thing and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Music
  • Real
  • Kind

• Certainly I would hope that this victory would be one that the guys say, 'Hey look, we're never out of something,' ... We're going to keep fighting no matter what. I hope we can kind of build on that and correct the things that we did poorly.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• In the words of Euripides, ‘those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad’.

  

  Catharine Arnold
  • Mad
  • Make
  • Gods

• Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger’s palm.

  

  Ada Limon
  • Sacrifice
  • Stranger
  • Hummingbird

• Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • Common
  • Angel

• We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • War
  • Mean
  • Evil

• Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Direction
  • Instinct
  • Determines