Bradley Nowell Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
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America rules the world - by force.
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
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Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.
