Brooks Johnson Quotes
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
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I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.
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The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
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The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.
