Marshall Brickman Quotes
I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
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Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
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Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.
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I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
