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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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 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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'A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like 'It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.'' (Italics in original)
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air – trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.
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I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
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You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
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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.
