Brantley Gilbert Quotes
For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.
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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
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When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
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For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
