Brad Falchuk Quotes
One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
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One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
