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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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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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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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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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.
