Brantley Gilbert Quotes
I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.
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I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.
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There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
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Perhaps the greatest lesson Huxley learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
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I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
