Douglas Brunt Quotes
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I think....living in such a hard situation when there are terrorists and they slaughter people every night is still hard - is still a threat. So it's a better idea to speak out for your rights and then die...we will speak out for our rights. This is what we can do, and we tried our best.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.
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Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκαθέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.
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In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic progress. That model is gone now. We also had a world order that was fraught but fairly stable.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Long after the fact, it occurred to me that this was a metaphor for life- blisters come before calluses, vulnerability before maturity- but not even the thickest of skins could have spared us the lash of Daddy's tongue.
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I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.
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We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.
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It's much easier to get disgusted when you've already banked 20 million bucks.
