Brantley Gilbert Quotes

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

Brantley Gilbert

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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Try
  • Aim
  • Jerusalem

• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Real
  • Trying

• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Air

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Video Games

• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Great
  • California

• I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Service
  • Own

• Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Conservative
  • Situations
  • Religiously

• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Never
  • Garden

• I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • America
  • Think
  • Eyes

• If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of the whowhatwhere.com and I read all of the fashion blogs. I'm working my way up to more grown up pieces.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Working

• If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Opportunity
  • Model
  • Say

• I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We had the highest standard of health and education and housing for our black people than any other country on the African continent. That was what Rhodesians did. I wonder if we shouldn't be given credit for doing that.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• Stated bluntly, the Aztlan Strategy entails the end of the United States as a sovereign, self-sufficient, independent republic, the passing away of the American nation. They are coming to conquer us.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Independent

• Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Once a star dies, it's gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Black
  • Universe
  • Star

• When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

  

  Jess Row
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Book

• I thought there might be a career in acting because I had other friends doing it.

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • Friends
  • Career

• I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

  

  Chris Pine

• I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

  

  Brantley Gilbert