Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
What's up?' he said, like the church was always burning down and I always called him on a school night, telling him to come over after dark and bring a shovel.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
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There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
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By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.
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Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.
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When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland's house every day. He was the DJ for my brother's rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim's DJ'ing and my brother's rapping, I'd be upstairs dancing.
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Modern cars I don't like so much.
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I could stuff a pillow with the amount of confetti I have had thrown at me. And could I sleep easily on that? No.
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What's up?' he said, like the church was always burning down and I always called him on a school night, telling him to come over after dark and bring a shovel.
