Les Brown Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Winning excuses everything.
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
