Marshall Brickman Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
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If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
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If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.
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For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
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I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
