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I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.

~Ben Schnetzer

Topics: Actor Beat Been Bricks Incredibly Know Like Lucky Place Right Right Place Right Time Time Unemployed

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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

~Benjamin Britten

Topics: Bricks Color Composing Details Down Driving Foggy House Like More Notes Road See Shape Slowly Toward Windows You

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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

~Bernard Tschumi

Topics: About Almost Always Architecture Behind Bricks Comfort Eye General General Public Public Public Eye Shelter Stand Will

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House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.

~Bill Flores

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If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can't you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?

~Bill Flores

Topics: Bricks Bureaucracy Card Care Choice Does Give Go Goal Health Health Care Insurance Need Our Provide Provider Them Va Veterans Why You

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I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

~Casey Affleck

Topics: Actor Around Bricks Build Building Garden Hard Hard Work House Just Knew Little Put Reason Row Show Someone Up Want Work Would You

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What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.

~Christopher Miller

Topics: About Bricks Bunch Cool Crazy Different Different Ideas Everybody Everyone Ideas Make May Put Really Seem Some Something Table Them Will You

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

~David Brinkley

Topics: Bricks Firm Foundation Him Lay Man Others Successful Successful Man Thrown Who

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Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

~David Cameron

Topics: Adult Authority Before Believe Break Bricks Coming Down Families Family Figures Law Like Line Love Need Over People Responses Step Strong Ton Tory Tough I Believe I Believe In

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I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

~David Mccallum

Topics: Around Bricks Eye Governed Hand Holds Life Think Who You Your I Think

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