Marshall Brickman Quotes
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
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When you do good work, people will notice you.
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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
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We've always been proud of what we've done.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.
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I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.
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One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
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Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.
