Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
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Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
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But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
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I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down.
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All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
