Brett Young Quotes
In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.
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When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.
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The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
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I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
