Creed Bratton Quotes
I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.
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The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.
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My favorite thing is to go out in the arenas, like, an hour before doors, and run the concourse. And you get that anticipation. You smell the popcorn. You see the people tapping the kegs. And nobody is in there yet but you, but you feel it. It's my favorite thing on tour.
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I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.
