David M. Brown Quotes
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.
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When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.
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I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
