Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.
