Brantley Gilbert Quotes
Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Health food makes me sick.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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No man may make another free.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
