Buck Brannaman Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.
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Most people don't realize how little it takes to get a horse to move.
