J.J. Brown Quotes

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

i'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

I have been blessed to be a blessing.

Of course they remember. But it's not gonna be about revenge; it's gonna be about the Big Ten championship.

I absolutely trust Hillary Clinton to stand strong on trade agreements.

Donald Trump talks a good game on trade, but he's never lived it. He's lined his pockets by outsourcing jobs to low-wage countries, and now he's talking about trade as if he actually means it?

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

Sometimes the scariest things in life aren’t the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn’t want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses.

I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships.

I'm going to be pissed if I walk all the way to the camp and end up getting shot.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.

I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.

Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.