B. R. Hayden Quotes
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.
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My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean.
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I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
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It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.
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This isn't a drift-net out there where we're soaking up everyone's communications.
