Gene Brown Quotes
The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
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Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.
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I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.
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I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
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It should be fun, but challenging. I'm totally excited and can't wait to do it.
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Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.
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The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.
