Anthony Braxton Quotes
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.
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Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
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For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.
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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
