David Brin Quotes
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
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At her station in life, wisdom dictated keeping a low profile.And yet...
