Douglas Brunt Quotes
Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
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The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
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I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
