Brantley Gilbert Quotes
Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
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I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'
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There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.
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I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
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Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
