Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Good design is good business.
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
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Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
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Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
