Bret Anthony Johnston Quotes
Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.
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There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
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Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
