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Douglas Brunt Quotes

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 25, 1971

Topics

Live Today Tree Perspective Day War

When I yell at my TV, it's usually watching... usually it happens during the election. There's when I'm watching CNN and MSNBC.

Election Watching Happens TV Yell

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

Direction You Jump Nothing Actor

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Heroic Many Investigative Journalists

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Time Greater Wasted Harm Than

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Mother Teacher Time Habit Think

We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Live World Engineering Know Build

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

Myself Me Care Enjoy Long Envy

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Time Art Culture Me Earth Create

Don't get me wrong - it's amazing playing basketball. But being 19 years old, playing and interacting with grown men with families wasn't fun all the time, especially during a grueling 82-game season. That, mixed with Toronto's freezing winter climate, made me miss my buddies back at Tech even more.

Winter Time Men Fun Amazing Me

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way.

Think Unique Career Want Way First

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.

Brian Stableford

Power Responsibility Joy Writing

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

Soul Song Think Someone Accomplish

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