Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
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On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
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Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.
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It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we're in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.
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This is magic - the people of Broadway. There's nothing better!
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
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Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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I'm an actor; I hire out.
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The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
