Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

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• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

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• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

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• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

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• Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

  

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• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

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• It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.

  

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• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

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• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

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• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

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• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

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• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

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• For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

  

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• Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

  

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• I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League'; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.

  

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• R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who became superstars. We tried to find a place where Jazz belonged because we didn't sell records.

  

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• My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • She
  • Mom
  • Religious