James L. Brooks Quotes
If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
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You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.
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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
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Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World
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When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.
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Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
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If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.
