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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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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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 don't want to be on the road all my life.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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Even at normal times Aunt Dahlia's map tended a little towards the crushed strawberry. But never had I seen it take on so pronounced a richness as now. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.
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Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
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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.
