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 loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
