Buck Brannaman Quotes
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
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I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
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Economy: cutting down other people's wages.
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The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!
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I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.
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Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.
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I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
