Brantley Gilbert Quotes
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
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I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
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Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
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A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.
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It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
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Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
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I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
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When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.
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Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
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We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.
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Cardio's not really my deal.
