Laurent Brancowitz Quotes

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

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• I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

  

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• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

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• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

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• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

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• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

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• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
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• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

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• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

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• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  

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• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

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• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

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• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

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• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

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• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

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• I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

  

  Brian Lamb
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• In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

  

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• Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

  

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• The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

  

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• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

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• When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
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