Buck Brannaman Quotes
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done.
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Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.
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Art is life, plus caprice.
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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
