Clancy Brown Quotes
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
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The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
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It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
