It Was Really Like Waking Up One Morning And Going, Wow, I Enjoy Being With This Person More Than Anybody Else In My Life, And It Just Turned Out To Be Mutual.

-Brian Austin Green

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It Was Really Like

Brian Austin Green

It Was Really Like Waking Up One Morning And Going, Wow, I Enjoy Being With This Person More Than Anybody Else In My Life, And It Just Turned Out To Be Mutual.

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I Started Promoting Clubs When I Was 15. 1 Was Doing What Is Considered The Normal Collegiate Stuff When I Was A Lot Younger. I Was Holding My Own, But Doing A Lot Of Crazy Things.

Crazy

Clubs

Stuff

I Can't Just Sit Around And Do Nothing. Although, I Can Sit On The Couch Sometimes And Just Watch Movies.

Watches

Sometimes

Couches

I'm Sometimes Critical About Other Artists Who Come Out With Something Different Until Maybe I Hear The Music. If The Music Is There, Then They Did Their Job, And I'll Enjoy The Cd.

Jobs

Artist

Cds

I Take A Baths All The Time. I'll Put On Some Music And Burn Some Incense And Just Sit In The Tub And Think, Wow, Life Is Great Right Now.

Thinking

Incense

Tubs

We Are Not Here To Just Exist; But To Find The Strength To Co-exist.

Life

I Was Three Years Old. I Was Messing With My Grandparents' Dog In Las Vegas, And He Decided To Pick Me Up By My Head And Run Around The Backyard With Me.

Family

Running

Dog

It's Just A Fact Of Life. Everybody Grows Up And Goes Through Changes, And Our Audience Has Seen It All.

Growing Up

Facts

Grows

It Was Really Like Waking Up One Morning And Going, Wow, I Enjoy Being With This Person More Than Anybody Else In My Life, And It Just Turned Out To Be Mutual.

Morning

Wow

Waking

I Did Some Commercials And A Couple Of B Movies, Then A Few Pilots That Didn't Go Anywhere. Eventually I Did The Pilot For Beverly Hills, 90210. The Rest Is History.

Couple

Pilots

Beverly Hills

I'm Just Saying, It's Got To Be About Something More Than Just Body Parts When You're With Somebody.

Body

Just Saying

I've Just Had Some Of The Worst Situations With The Most Beautiful Girls, Who I Just Could Not Stand Talking To Anymore. The Physical Only Lasts For So Long.

Beautiful

Girl

Worst Situation

If Somebody Doesn't Have Enough Judgment To Be Able To Look At Plastic Surgery And Realize How Phony It Is, Then They Can't Be Helped.

Looks

Able

Realizing

As Of Right Now, I'm Still Waiting To Meet Halle Berry. And She Is Single.

Waiting

Berries

Stills

I Like Women Who Are Really Strong And Were Brought Up To Be Comfortable With Themselves And Respect Themselves.

Strong

Comfortable

In Every Interview I've Got To Explain Something About Being White But Still Being Into Hip Hop. It's Gone Way Beyond The Musical Aspect Of The Business. And I'm As Critical About Music As Everybody Else Is.

White

Hip Hop

Musical

It's Strange, Because I Remember The Biggest Point Of My Childhood Was One Halloween When I Was Trick Or Treating And Ended Up At Henry Winkler's House And He Answered The Door. So I Got To Meet The Fonz. That Was Cool.

Halloween

Doors

House

Going Out Is Such A Hassle. The Singles Club Scene Where You Sit Down, Talk, Get To Know Each Other, Hang Out-it's Such A Big Ordeal.

Going Out

Clubs

Scene

My Mother's Incredibly Giving, Almost Too Giving At Times. And, My Dad Is A Real Logical Person. He's Got Logic For Every Situation. They've Been Married For 24 Years, So There Was That Stability, Also. I Really Learned To Think On My Own At A Very Young Age.

Mother

Dad

Real

My Parents Love Each Other. They Work Through Their Problems.

Parent

Problem

Parents Love

My Goal Was To Play Drums, But My Father Made Me Take Piano Lessons. He Told Me I Needed To Learn To Read Music First, So I Took Lessons For Six Years. I Thank God That He Made Me Take Those Lessons, Because It Taught Me A Tremendous Amount.

Father

Piano

Years

The Worst Thing You Can Do Is To Put Your Life Aside For Someone Else.

Worst

Worst Things

Can Do

I May See Somebody In A Club One Night And Go, Wow, She's The Most Attractive Girl I've Seen In A Long Time. Then I'll See Her The Next Night And Be Like, Oh No, I Don't Think So.

Girl

Night

Thinking

I'm A Facist About Spoilers. I'm The Biggest Pain In The Ass To The Marketing And Promotions Department. If I Had My Way, The Commercials Would Be 30 Seconds Of Black With A Few Words On Them.

Pain

Black

Marketing

Oh, There's Tons Of Resentment. That's Normal. I Can't Control That, And I Don't Worry About It.

Worry

Normal

Resentment

When Somebody Gives Up Their Friends And Everything They Do Just To Be With A Person, They Wake Up Miserable One Day. They're Denying Themselves For No Real Reason Other Than They Think That's The Thing To Do.

Giving Up

Real

Thinking

James Brown Was One Of The First Artists Who Found Four Bars That He Liked And Played Them The Entire Way Through, And Then He Just Added To It Vocally.

Artist

Bars

Four

All I Can Say Is That I've Had Too Many People In The Hip-hop Industry Really Like What I'm Doing. I Know Where I'm Coming From, And The Album Speaks For Itself.

People

Hip Hop

Albums

A Lot Of Student Directors Used To Pick Other Students To Be In Their Graduate Films, So. I Ended Up Doing A Couple Of Them Just For Fun. Eventually, I Got An Agent Through A Friend And I Did Some Commercials; Then I Got Knots Landing.

Couple

Fun

Directors

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

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3.1. Direct Quotes

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Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

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Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

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5.1. Overusing Quotes

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6.1. Academic Writing

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Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

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In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

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Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

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Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

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Conclusion

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