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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My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?
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I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun.
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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.
