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've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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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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I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
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I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
