Edie Brickell Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
