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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When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.
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There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.
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People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
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I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
