Brantley Gilbert Quotes
Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
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I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
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I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.
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I think playing a comic role is the toughest job for an actor; to put glycerin and cry is easy, but to make people laugh is difficult.
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Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
