Blair Brown Quotes

I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.

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• Stars arrive on their own timetable.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Stars
  • Own
  • Arrive

• Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Violence

• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Act

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Listening

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Thoughts
  • Chaos
  • Stand

• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Today
  • You
  • Motivational

• I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Body
  • Just
  • Stand

• The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Free
  • Chinese
  • New

• Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Mind
  • Yoga

• When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

  

  Aimee Mullins

• Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Heaven
  • Son
  • Tolerate

• I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Mother
  • Funny

• I’m actually quite tired because Threepio is an exhausting character - he’s always very tense, he’s always slightly on the edge of panic. That’s why he’s funny, because he’s always in the wrong place. I record each piece three times in a row, so the director can choose without interrupting too much.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Why
  • Character
  • Funny

• I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.

  

  Blair Brown
  • Star
  • Son