Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
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I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.
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I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
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Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.
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When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.
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Everything in life involves choice.
