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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I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.
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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I boxed a lot as a kid, so it's something that comes second nature to me.
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White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.
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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.
