Brantley Gilbert Quotes
I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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Dreams grow if you grow.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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My first conflict with NOW erupted in the mid-’70s when NOW chapters increasingly rejected father involvement by rejecting shared parent time as the preferred arrangement after divorce.
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I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
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I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.
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I support the homies, like Mike Jay and Hannibal Buress. And I listen to Comedy Central Radio in the car.
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
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Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.
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No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.
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I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.
