Marshall Brickman Quotes
As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.
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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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It's sort of my job to feel good.
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He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.
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OK, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars.
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I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.
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There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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So I'll go eat places and then I'll run it off in the show.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.
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As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
